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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Preface xi
6. Introduction 1
7. 1. The Setting: Marine Insurance and Bills of Exchange 19
8. 2. The Making of a Legend 36
9. 3. The Riddle of Usury 49
10. 4. Bordeaux, the Specter of Crypto-Judaism, and the Changing Status of Commerce 66
11. 5. One Family, Two Bestsellers, and the Legend’s Canonization 99
12. 6. Between Usury and the “Spirit of Commerce” 128
13. 7. Distant Echoes 162
14. 8. A Legacy that Runs Deep 197
15. Coda 216
16. Appendix 1: Early Modern European Commercial Literature: Printed Bibliographies and Online Databases 227
17. Appendix 2: The Legend’s Earliest Formulation 231
18. Appendix 3: Étienne Cleirac’s Works: Titles, Editions, and Issues 239
19. Appendix 4: The Legend in the Works of Jacques Savary and His Sons 243
20. Appendix 5: Printed Books in French that Mention the Legend (1647–1800) 249
21. Appendix 6: Printed Books in Languages Other than French that Mention the Legend (1676–1800) 253
22. Appendix 7: Bibliographical References in Werner Sombart’s Die Juden und das Wirtschaftsleben (1911) 259
23. Notes 295
24. Index 395