LEADER 03451nam 2200649 a 450 001 9910778093403321 005 20230721021710.0 010 $a9786612352393 010 $a1-282-35239-3 010 $a0-300-14285-4 010 $a1-282-08938-2 010 $a9786612089381 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300142853 035 $a(CKB)1000000000764821 035 $a(StDuBDS)BDZ0022168133 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000222789 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11221247 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000222789 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10190743 035 $a(PQKB)10716360 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000157954 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3420562 035 $a(DE-B1597)485031 035 $a(OCoLC)404723390 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300142853 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3420562 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10348458 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL208938 035 $a(OCoLC)923594564 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000764821 100 $a20080718d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aPlumes$b[electronic resource] $eostrich feathers, Jews, and a lost world of global commerce /$fSarah Abrevaya Stein 210 $aNew Haven $cYale University Press$dc2008 215 $a1 online resource (1 online resource (xii, 244 p.) )$cill., maps 300 $aMap on endpapers. 311 $a0-300-12736-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [205]-227) and index. 327 $aIntroduction: The pursuit of plumes -- The Cape of Southern Africa : Atlantic crossings -- London : global feather hub -- The trans-Saharan trade : Mediterranean connections -- The American feather world -- Conclusion: Global stories. 330 $aThe thirst for exotic ornament among fashionable women in the metropoles of Europe and America prompted a bustling global trade in ostrich feathers that flourished from the 1880's until the First World War. When feathers fell out of fashion with consumers, the result was an economic catastrophe for many, a worldwide feather bust. In this remarkable book, Sarah Stein draws on rich archival materials to bring to light the prominent and varied roles of Jews in the feather trade. She discovers that Jews fostered and nurtured the trade across the global commodity chain and throughout the far-flung territories where ostriches were reared and plucked, and their feathers were sorted, exported, imported, auctioned, wholesaled, and finally manufactured for sale. From Yiddish-speaking Russian-Lithuanian feather handlers in South Africa to London manufacturers and wholesalers, from rival Sephardic families whose feathers were imported from the Sahara and traded across the Mediterranean, from New York's Lower East Side to entrepreneurial farms in the American West, Stein explores the details of a remarkably vibrant yet ephemeral culture. This is a singular story of global commerce, colonial economic practices, and the rise and fall of a glamorous luxury item. 606 $aOstrich feather industry$xHistory 606 $aJewish merchants$xHistory 615 0$aOstrich feather industry$xHistory. 615 0$aJewish merchants$xHistory. 676 $a382/.438524 700 $aStein$b Sarah Abrevaya$0764309 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910778093403321 996 $aPlumes$93854157 997 $aUNINA