Avinoam Yuval-Naeh

An Economy of Strangers

Jews and Finance in England, 1650-1830

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Produktbeschreibung

"In this book, historian Avinoam Yuval-Naeh investigates how and why eighteenth-century English society projected anxieties regarding the parallel development of the modern economy and of the re-establishment of the Jewish population upon the other, thus offering new insights into the interface of religious ideas and economic life"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9781512825053
• ISBN-10: 1512825050
• Artikelnr.: 68105664

Autorenporträt

Avinoam Yuval-Naeh

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I. Usury
Chapter 1. Jewish Usury, Jewish Historiography, and the Readmission Polemic
of the 1650s
Chapter 2. Usury and the Re-narration of the Ancient Israelite Society
Chapter 3. English Ethnography and the Economy of the Jews
Part II. Finance
Chapter 4. Jews and the Financial Revolution
Chapter 5. The 1753 Jewish Naturalization Bill and the Polemic over Public
Credit
Chapter 6. Jews, Finance, and Gender on the Stage and Beyond
Chapter 7. Finance and the Eschaton
Part III. Reform
Chapter 8. Economic Crime and Criminal Economy
Chapter 9. Jews and English Civil Society: Between Cumberland's The Jew and
the Campaign for Emancipation
Epilogue
Notes
Index
Acknowledgments