Global trade and commercial networks: eighteenth-century diamond merchants

In: Perspectives in economic and social history no. 11

Abstract

1. Models for trade and globalization -- 2. A short history of the diamond trade -- 3. A cross-cultural diamond trade network -- 4. Competition from an Ashkenazi kinship network -- 5. The embeddedness of merchants in state and society -- 6. Trade, global history and human agency.