Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Note on Terminology and Units of Measurement ix
5. Introduction 1
6. 1. Diasporic Families and the Making of a Business Partnership 21
7. 2. Livorno and the Western Sephardic Diaspora 43
8. 3. A New City, a New Society? Livorno, the Jewish Nation, and Communitarian Cosmopolitanism 70
9. 4. Between State Commercial Power and Trading Diasporas: Sephardim in the Mediterranean 102
10. 5. Marriage, Dowry, Inheritance, and Types of Commercial Association 132
11. 6. Commission Agency, Economic Information, and the Legal and Social Foundations of Business Cooperation 153
12. 7. Cross-Cultural Trade and the Etiquette of Merchants’ Letters 177
13. 8. Ergas and Silvera’s Heterogeneous Trading Networks 194
14. 9. The Exchange of Mediterranean Coral and Indian Diamonds 224
15. 10. The “Big Diamond Affair”: Merchants on Trial 251
16. Conclusion 271
17. Notes 279
18. References 385
19. Index 447