Rulers, religion, and riches : why the West got rich and the Middle East did not / by Rubin, Jared T.

Table of Contents: “…Propagation of rule: a theory of economic success and stagnation -- The propagation of rule -- Historical origins of rule propagation -- Applying the theory: why the West got rich and the Middle East did not -- Bans on taking interest -- Restrictions on the printing press -- Printing & the Reformation -- Success: England & the Dutch Republic -- Stagnation: Spain & the Ottoman Empire.…”

Rulers, religion, and riches : why the West got rich and the Middle East did not / by Rubin, Jared T.

Table of Contents: “…Propagation of rule: a theory of economic success and stagnation -- The propagation of rule -- Historical origins of rule propagation -- Applying the theory: why the West got rich and the Middle East did not -- Bans on taking interest -- Restrictions on the printing press -- Printing & the Reformation -- Success: England & the Dutch Republic -- Stagnation: Spain & the Ottoman Empire.…”
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The individual in political theory and practice /

Table of Contents: “…Guggisberg -- Liberty, civic rights, and duties in sixteenth-century Europe and the rise of the Dutch Republic / Martin van Gelderen -- Guilt and individual consciousness ; the individual, the Church and the state in the modern era, sixteenth-seventeenth centuries / Marie-Sylvie Dupont-Bouchat -- A case of modern individualism : politics and the uneasiness of intellectuals in the Baroque Age / Vittor Ivo Comparato -- 'Liberty is an inestimable thing' : some unexpected 'laboratories' of human rights in France and Germany / Wolfgang Schmale -- Rulers and subjects : the absolutist making of the individual / Wolfgang Weber -- What is 'man' in seventeenth-century philosophy? …”

Innovation and Creativity in Late Medieval and Early Modern European Cities /

Table of Contents: “…1: Innovation and Creativity in Late Medieval and Early Modern European Cities: an Introduction -- 2: The Cities of Glass: Privileges and Innovations in Early Modern Europe -- 3: Craft Guild Legislation and Woollen Production: the Florentine Arte della Lana -- 4: New Products and Technological Innovation in the Silk Industry of Vicenza -- 5: To Kill Two Birds with One Stone: Keeping Immigrants in by Granting Free Burghership in Early Modern Antwerp -- 6: The Secret Perfume: Technology and the Organization of Soap Production in Northern Italy -- 7: Textiles Manufacturing, Product Innovations and Transfers of Technology in Padua and Venice -- 8: The Spatial Side of Innovation: the Local Organization of Cultural Production in the Dutch Republic -- 9: Beyond Exclusivism: Entrance Fees for Guilds in the Early Modern Low Countries -- 10: The Coopers' Guilds in Holland, c. 1650-1720: a Market Logic? …”
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Atlas of material life : Northwestern Europe and East Asia, 15th to 19th century / by Vries, P. H. H., Vries, Annelieke

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Religious changes and cultural transformations in the early modern western Sephardic communities /

Table of Contents: “…Wilke -- Prison Revelations and Jailhouse Encounters: Inquisitorial Prisons as Places of Judaizing Activism and Cross-Cultural Exchange / Ronnie Perelis -- Mechanisms of Social Discipline in the Sephardic Communities -- Defining Deviance, Negotiating Norms: Raphael Meldola in Livorno, Pisa, and Bayonne / Bernard Dov Cooperman -- A Sephardic Saga in the Dutch Republic: The Cohen Pallache Women on Love, Religion, and Social Standing / Tirtsah Levie Bernfeld -- Dispute Resolution and Kahal Kadosh Talmud Torah: Community Forum and Legal Acculturation in Eighteenth-Century Amsterdam / Evelyne Oliel-Grausz -- The "Livro de Pleitos": The Leadership of the Spanish and Portuguese Community of London in the Eighteenth Century as a Court of Requests / Alex Kerner -- Economy and Community among Italian Sephardim -- Jews in the Papal States between Western Sephardic Diasporas and Ghettoization: A Trial in Ancona as a Case Study (1555-1563) / Serena Di Nepi -- The Sephardic Community and Social Practices in the Circuit of Money: Social Implications of Payment Networks in the Context of the Livorninas / Mauricio Dimant -- Charity Begins at Home: Reflections on the Dowry Society of Livorno / Nourit Melcer-Padon -- The Boundaries of Rabbinical Authority -- Jacob Sasportas and Problems of Discipline in the Ets Haim Yeshiva / Yaacob Dweck -- A Letter's Importance: The Spelling of Daka(h) (Deut. 23:2) and the Broadening of Western Sephardic Rabbinic Culture / David Sclar -- Hakham Yaakov Athias-A Portuguese Rabbi Facing the Winds of Enlightenment and Secularization / Yocheved Beeri -- Varieties of Cultural Creativity -- On the Role of Hebrew Grammars in the Western European Diaspora and the New World / Moisés Orfali -- New Jews in Amsterdam: Some Social Aspects Reflected in the Thesouro dos Dinim by Menasseh ben Israel / Aliza Moreno-Goldschmidt -- Penso de la Vega and the Question of Jewish Baroque / Einat Davidi -- Crossing the Atlantic-Sephardic Communities in the New World -- Sea Is History, Sea Is Witness: The Creation of a Prosopographical Database for the Sephardic Atlantic / Michael Studemund-Halévy -- Revisiting Blackness, Slavery, and Jewishness in the Early Modern Sephardic Atlantic / Jonathan Schorsch -- Feckless Fathers, Fraught Families: Abandonment and Cultural Change in the Early Modern Jewish World / Jessica Vance Roitman -- The Gabay Dynasty: Plantation Jews of the Colonial Atlantic World / Stanley Mirvis -- Patriots at the Periphery: David Nassy, the French Revolution, and the Emancipation of the Dutch Jews / Sina Rauschenbach -- Back Matter -- Index of Names and Places.…”
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