The merchants of Oran : a Jewish port at the dawn of empire /
The Merchants of Oran weaves together the history of a Mediterranean port city with the lives of Oran's Jewish mercantile elite during the transition to French colonial rule. Through the life of Jacob Lasry and other influential Jewish merchants, Joshua Schreier tells the story of how this dive...
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| Language: | English |
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Stanford, California :
Stanford University Press,
[2017]
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| Series: | Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture
Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture |
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Table of Contents:
- Mediterranean Oran
- Rebuilding Oran : Jews, beys, and commerce, 1792-1830
- Making money in a time of conquest
- Struggles for and between the merchants of Oran
- Jacob Lasry and the business of conquest
- From "Juifs de Gibraltar" and "Algerine Jews" to Israélites indigènes
- Conclusion : merchants, moralities and mythologies
- Mediterranean Oran
- Rebuilding Oran : Jews, beys, and commerce, 1792-1830
- Making money in a time of conquest
- Struggles for and between the merchants of Oran
- Jacob Lasry and the business of conquest
- From "Juifs de Gibraltar" and "Algerine Jews" to Israélites indigènes
- Conclusion : merchants, moralities and mythologies
- Mediterranean Oran
- Rebuilding Oran : Jews, beys, and commerce, 1792-1830
- Making money in a time of conquest
- Struggles for and between the merchants of Oran
- Jacob Lasry and the business of conquest
- From "Juifs de Gibraltar" and "Algerine Jews" to Israélites indigènes
- Conclusion : merchants, moralities and mythologies