{"product_id":"religion-and-trade-cross-cultural-exchanges-in-world-history-1000-1900-9780199379194","title":"Religion and Trade: Cross-Cultural Exchanges in World History, 1000-1900","description":"Although trade connects distant people and regions, bringing cultures closer together through the exchange of material goods and ideas, it has not always led to unity and harmony. From the era of the Crusades to the dawn of colonialism, exploitation and violence characterized many trading\u003cbr\u003eventures, which required vessels and convoys to overcome tremendous technological obstacles and merchants to grapple with strange customs and manners in a foreign environment. Yet despite all odds, experienced traders and licensed brokers, as well as ordinary people, travelers, pilgrims, \u003cbr\u003emissionaries, and interlopers across the globe, concocted ways of bartering, securing credit, and establishing relationships with people who did not speak their language, wore different garb, and worshipped other gods. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eReligion and Trade: Cross-Cultural Exchanges in World History, 1000-1900\u003c\/em\u003e focuses on trade across religious boundaries around the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic and Indian Oceans during the second millennium. Written by an international team of scholars, the essays in this volume examine a wide\u003cbr\u003erange of commercial exchanges, from first encounters between strangers from different continents to everyday transactions between merchants who lived in the same city yet belonged to diverse groups. In order to broach the intriguing yet surprisingly neglected subject of how the relationship between\u003cbr\u003etrade and religion developed historically, the authors consider a number of interrelated questions: When and where was religion invoked explicitly as part of commercial policies? How did religious norms affect the everyday conduct of trade? Why did economic imperatives, political goals, and legal\u003cbr\u003einstitutions help sustain commercial exchanges across religious barriers in different times and places? When did trade between religious groups give way to more tolerant views of the other and when, by contrast, did it coexist with hostile images of those decried as infidels? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eExploring captivating examples from across the world and spanning the course of the second millennium, this groundbreaking volume sheds light on the political, economic, and juridical underpinnings of cross-cultural trade as it emerged or developed at various times and places, and reflects on the\u003cbr\u003ecultural and religious significance of the passage of strange persons and exotic objects across the many frontiers that separated humankind in medieval and early modern times.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Francesca Trivellato\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/17\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 296\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.60h x 6.00w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780199379194\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrancesca Trivellato\u003c\/strong\u003e is the Frederick W. Hilles Professor of History at Yale University. She is the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Familiarity of Strangers: The Sephardic Diaspora, Livorno, and Cross-Cultural Trade in the Early Modern Period\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eFondamenta dei vetrai: Lavoro, tecnologia e mercato a Venezia tra Sei\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003ee Settecento\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLeor Halevi\u003c\/strong\u003e is Associate Professor of History and Professor of Law at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eMuhammad's Grave: Death Rites and the Making of Islamic Society\u003c\/em\u003e, a book that won the Ralph Waldo Emerson Award and the Middle East Studies Association's Albert Hourani Award, as well as\u003cbr\u003ebook prizes given by the Medieval Academy of America and the American Academy of Religion. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCátia Antunes\u003c\/strong\u003e is Associate Professor of Early Modern Economic and Social History at Leiden University. She is the author of two monographs on early modern globalization: \u003cem\u003eGlobalisation in the Early Modern Period: The Economic Relationship between Amsterdam and Lisbon, 1640-1705\u003c\/em\u003e and L\u003cem\u003eisboa e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eAmesterdão: Um caso de globalização na história moderna\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":39934213062771,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":33.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_20bbae5f-927f-42bb-8f3e-a4657beefe0f.jpg?v=1647877863","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/religion-and-trade-cross-cultural-exchanges-in-world-history-1000-1900-9780199379194","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}