Plumes : ostrich feathers, Jews, and a lost world of global commerce /

Plumes : ostrich feathers, Jews, and a lost world of global commerce /

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The thirst for exotic ornament among fashionable women in the metropoles of Europe and America prompted a bustling global trade in ostrich feathers that flourished from the 1880s until the First World War. When feathers fell out of fashion with consumers, the result was an economic catastrophe for m...

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Main Author: Stein, Sarah Abrevaya (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
Corporate Author: De Gruyter
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2008
New Haven, CT : [2008]
Subjects:
Jewish merchants > History
Ostrich feather industry > History
Plumes d'autruche > Industrie > Histoire
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Exports & Imports
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > International > General
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > International > Marketing
HISTORY > General
History
Industry
Jewish merchants
Ostrich feather industry
POLITICAL SCIENCE > International Relations > Trade & Tariffs
Electronic books
Dictionaries
History > UNAUTHORIZED

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