‘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...
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1999
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