‘That Mysterious People’: Jewish Merchants, Transparency, and Community in Mid-Nineteenth Century America
In the mid-nineteenth century, American wholesalers began increasingly to rely on credit-reporting agencies to provide information about customers in distant localities. The demand for dependable information, coupled with the dynamism and competitiveness of the American market, helped usher into pla...
Main Author: | Olegario, R |
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Format: | Journal article |
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1999
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