Money, Power, and Influence in Eighteenth-Century Lithuania: The Jews on the Radziwill Estates

by Adam Teller

It has often been claimed that Jews have a penchant for capitalism and capitalist economic activity. With this book, Adam Teller challenges that assumption. Examining how Jews achieved their extraordinary success within the late feudal economy of the eighteenth-century Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, he shows that economic success did not necessarily come through any innate entrepreneurial skills, but through identifying and exploiting economic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804798443
• ISBN13: 9780804798440
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.1"