Trade and Institutions in the Medieval Mediterranean

The Geniza Merchants and their Business World

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Jessica L. Goldberg

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Cambridge Studies in Economic History: Second Series

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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.

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Jessica Goldberg is Assistant Professor of Medieval History at the University of Pennsylvania. She studies the medieval history of the Mediterranean basin, Christian Europe and the Islamic world specialising in economic and legal institutions and culture.

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August 23rd, 2012

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Jessica L. Goldberg

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Professional & Vocational

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22 Maps; 11 Halftones, unspecified; 2 Line drawings, unspecified

Pages

450

Series

Cambridge Studies in Economic History: Second Series

Dimensions

147x229x33

ISBN-13

9781107005471

Product ID

18627517

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