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Author Schreier, Joshua, 1969- author.

Title The merchants of Oran : a Jewish port at the dawn of empire / Joshua Schreier
Published Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 199 pages)
Series Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture
Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture.
Contents Mediterranean Oran -- Rebuilding Oran : Jews, beys, and commerce, 1792-1830 -- Making money in a time of conquest -- Struggles for and between the merchants of Oran -- Jacob Lasry and the business of conquest -- From "Juifs de Gibraltar" and "Algerine Jews" to Israélites indigènes -- Conclusion : merchants, moralities and mythologies
Summary This text recounts the French conquest of Algeria by exploring the world of Oran's influential Jewish merchants
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 28, 2018)
Subject Lasry, Jacob, 1793-1869.
SUBJECT Lasry, Jacob, 1793-1869 fast
Subject Jewish merchants -- Algeria -- Oran -- Biography
Jews -- Algeria -- Oran -- History -- 19th century
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
HISTORY -- Africa -- General.
HISTORY -- Jewish.
Commerce
Ethnic relations
French colonies
Jewish merchants
Jews
Colonies -- Administration
SUBJECT Oran (Algeria) -- Commerce -- History -- 19th century
Algeria -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 19th century
France -- Colonies -- Administration -- History -- 19th century
Subject Algeria
Algeria -- Oran
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2016041831
ISBN 9781503602168
1503602168