Global Trade and Commercial Networks. Eighteenth-century diamond merchants

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Deals with the early 18th century international trade in diamonds focusing on merchants at Antwerp [English Catholics], London and Amsterdam [Sephardic and Ashkenazi Jews] and Lisbon [French Huguenots] and the network in which they operated. Sections include: 'Models for trade and globalization'; 'A short history of the diamond trade'; 'A cross-cultural diamond trade network'; 'Competition from an Ashkenazi kinship network'; 'The embeddedness of merchants in state and society'; 'Trade, global history and human agency'