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Traders around the world use particular spoken argots, to guard commercial secrets or to cement their identity as members of a certain group. The written regist

With 19 new chapters, showcasing the best work of thinkers writing in this area and providing a coherent picture of key ideas and concepts to have emerged from

From its dramatic expansion in the early nineteenth century to its decline in the late 1930s, salt production in Zigong was one of the largest and only indigeno

Using cutting-edge theory regarding trade networks and diaspora, this study challenges the historiographical argument that the Sephardim, and indeed, a variety

Late medieval and early modern cities are often depicted as cradles of artistic creativity and hotbeds of new material culture. Cities in renaissance Italy and