Download or read book Global Trade and Commercial Networks written by Tijl Vanneste and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the heart of this study on cross-cultural trade lies a concrete case-study of a network of diamond merchants operating in the early eighteenth century. All the traders examined in this study are outsiders: an English Catholic in Antwerp, Sephardic and Ashkenazi Jews in London and Amsterdam and French Huguenots in Lisbon.