ABSTRACT

At the heart of this study on cross-cultural trade lies a concrete case-study of a network of diamond merchants operating in the early eighteenth century. All the traders examined in this study are outsiders: an English Catholic in Antwerp, Sephardic and Ashkenazi Jews in London and Amsterdam and French Huguenots in Lisbon.

chapter |12 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|27 pages

Models for Trade and Globalization

chapter 2|26 pages

A Short History of the Diamond Trade

chapter 3|28 pages

A Cross-Cultural Diamond Trade Network

chapter 6|26 pages

Trade, Global History and Human Agency

chapter |7 pages

Conclusion