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050 00 $aHD9429.F4$bS84 2008
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100 1 $aStein, Sarah Abrevaya.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no00039522
245 10 $aPlumes :$bostrich feathers, Jews, and a lost world of global commerce /$cSarah Abrevaya Stein.
260 $aNew Haven :$bYale University Press,$c[2008], ©2008.
263 $a0812
300 $axii, 244 pages :$billustrations, map ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $gIntroduction.$tThe Pursuit of Plumes -- $gCh. 1.$tThe Cape of Southern Africa: Atlantic Crossings -- $gCh. 2.$tLondon: Global Feather Hub -- $gCh. 3.$tThe Trans-Saharan Trade: Mediterranean Connections -- $gCh. 4.$tThe American Feather World -- $tConclusion: Global Stories.
520 1 $a"A bold and original work of cultural and economic history, Plumes examines the thriving global trade in ostrich feathers from the "feather boom" of the 1880s to the economically devastating "feather bust" that coincided with the First World War. At that pivotal moment, the exotic plumes that had adorned the hats of women in the capitals of Europe and America-such as the elusive Barbary feather from Sudan, coveted the world over for its "dazzling fullness, width at the crown, and so-called double fluff" - fell precipitously out of fashion." "But this is much more than the story of a vogue. It is also a remarkable portrait of Jewish enterprise. "Jews played a crucial and visible role not only in the South African branch of the feather trade but in its North African, Ottoman, French, British, and American wings as well," writes Stein. "Furthermore, Jews in the industry were immensely diverse: Ashkenazi, Sephardi, Judea-Arab, and Anglo; citizens of nation-states, colonial subjects, and proteges of royal courts; white-collar and blue-collar workers; immigrants and native born, men and women, adults and children."" "Drawing on a vast array of archival sources, Stein covers every facet of the feather trade, from Yiddish-speaking Russian-Lithuanian feather handlers in South Africa to London manufacturers and wholesalers, from Sephardic families whose feathers were imported from the Sahara and traded across the Mediterranean, to New York's Lower East Side manufactories where, according to one commentator, feathers were "saturated with tears and sighs," and to entrepreneurial feather farms in the American West. In Plumes) high fashion, Jewish studies, and modern economic and global history converge."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aOstrich feather industry$xHistory.
650 0 $aJewish merchants$xHistory.
852 00 $bglx$hHD9429.F4$iS84 2008