{"product_id":"religion-and-trade-cross-cultural-exchanges-in-world-history-1000-1900-paperback","title":"Religion and Trade: Cross-Cultural Exchanges in World History, 1000-1900 - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eFrancesca Trivellato\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eLeor Halevi\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eCatia Antunes\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlthough 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 ventures, 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, missionaries, 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\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 range 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 trade 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 institutions help sustain commercial exchanges across religious barriers in different times and places?\u003cbr\u003eWhen 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 cultural 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\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\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 e 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 book 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 Amesterdão: Um caso de globalização na história moderna\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 296\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 9.6 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 17, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45257649127526,"sku":"9780199379194","price":74.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/RmZoaVhBNnl4NFhvU0JYOEp3dGM4UT09.webp?v=1773787832","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/religion-and-trade-cross-cultural-exchanges-in-world-history-1000-1900-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}