Plumes: Ostrich Feathers, Jews, and a Lost World of Global Commerce

by Sarah Stein and Sarah Stein

An unexpected and fascinating examination of the vanished Jewish trade in ostrich feathers, which thrived on three continents

The 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 1880s until the First World War. When feathers fell out of fashion with consumers, the result was an economic catastrophe for many, a...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300168187
• ISBN13: 9780300168181
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 9.1"