Trade and institutions in the medieval Mediterranean : the Geniza merchants and their business world
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Trade and institutions in the medieval Mediterranean : the Geniza merchants and their business world
(Cambridge studies in economic history)
Cambridge University Press, 2012
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 366-415) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The Geniza merchants of the eleventh-century Mediterranean - sometimes called the 'Maghribi traders' - are central to controversies about the origins of long-term economic growth and the institutional bases of trade. In this book, Jessica Goldberg reconstructs the business world of the Geniza merchants, maps the shifting geographic relationships of the medieval Islamic economy and sheds new light on debates about the institutional framework for later European dominance. Commercial letters, business accounts and courtroom testimony bring to life how these medieval traders used personal gossip and legal mechanisms to manage far-flung agents, switched business strategies to manage political risks and asserted different parts of their fluid identities to gain advantage in the multicultural medieval trading world. This book paints a vivid picture of the everyday life of Jewish merchants in Islamic societies and adds new depth to debates about medieval trading institutions with unique quantitative analyses and innovative approaches.
Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction: two tales
- Part I. Institutions: 2. Merchants in their community
- 3. The uses of commercial correspondence
- 4. The nature of merchants' trade
- 5. The human landscape: business relationships, institutions of law and government
- 6. Conclusion to Part I
- Part II. Geographies: 7. The geography of information
- 8. Commodities in a regional market
- 9. Individual geographies of trade
- 10. The contracting geography of the eleventh-century merchant network
- 11. Conclusion: the Mediterranean through the eyes of Geniza merchants
- Glossary of terms
- Bibliography.
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