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Goldberg Jessica L

Trade and institutions in the medieval mediterranean : The Geniza merchants and their business world - Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2012 - 426p xxi

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.

ISBN: 9781107005471

Subjects--Topical Terms:
1. Mediterranean Region - History2. Jewish Metchants 3. Commerce - History - Medieval

Dewey Class. No.: 382.091000 / GOL