Religion and Trade

Francesca Trivellato is the Frederick W. Hilles Professor of History at Yale University. She is the author of The Familiarity of Strangers: The Sephardic Diaspora, Livorno, and Cross-Cultural Trade in the Early Modern Period and Fondamenta dei vetrai: Lavoro, tecnologia e mercato a Venezia tra Sei e Settecento.Leor Halevi is Associate Professor of History and Professor of Law at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of Muhammad's Grave: Death Rites and the Making of Islamic Society, 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.Cátia Antunes is Associate Professor of Early Modern Economic and Social History at Leiden University.

• Introduction, Francesca Trivellato ; 1. Religion and Cross-Cultural Trade: A Framework for Interdisciplinary Inquiry, Leor Halevi ; 2. The Blessings of Exchange in the Making of the Early English Atlantic, David Harris Sacks ; 3. Trading with the Muslim World: Religious Limits and Proscriptions in the Portuguese Empire (c. 1480-1570), Giuseppe Marcocci ; 4. The Economy of Ransoming in the Mediterranean: A Form of Cross-Cultural Trade between Europe and the Maghreb (Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century), Wolfgang Kaiser and Guillaume Calafat ; 5. Reflections on Reciprocity: A Late Medieval Islamic Perspective on Christian-Muslim Commitment to Captive Exchange, Kathryn A. Miller ; 6. Cross-Cultural Business Cooperation in the Dutch Trading World, 1580-1776: A View from the Amsterdam Notarial Contracts, Catia Antunes ; 7. Trade across Religious and Confessional Boundaries in Early Modern France, Silvia Marzagalli ; 8. Coins and Commerce: Monetization and Cross-Cultural Collaboration in the Western Indian Ocean (Eleventh to Thirteenth Centuries), Roxani Eleni Margariti ; 9. Crossing the Great Water: The Hajj and Commerce from Pre-Modern Southeast Asia, Eric Tagliacozzo ; 10. African Meanings and European-African Discourse: Iconography and Semantics in Seventeenth-Century Salt Cellars from Serra Leoa, Peter Mark

This collective volume is a gift. Thanks to the plurality of its approach and vision, to the variety of themes it gathers together, and to the numerous regions and periods it covers, it is a must for anyone interested in this area of study -- also because it urges the reader to consider how a global history of the intersection of religion and economics in pre-modern commerce is both possible and necessary ... I highly recommend to all scholars and libraries interested in the state of the art in this field.