Abstract
The article highlights the social history of Jewish goldsmiths in French Morocco between the two World Wars, a period in which the global capitalist system challenged their historical monopoly over production and commerce. Continued external intervention (Moroccan commercial treaties with European capitalist markets), direct competition (the import of cheap industrial products and an influx of entrepreneurs), the mechanisation of local manufacturing, the encouragement of individualism resulting in the breakdown of Jewish social cohesion and the taking over of political institutions by France (the Makhzen) and its local agent (the Muhtaseb) had all eroded the Jewish monopoly of the precious-metals industry and created an unexpected atmosphere of strong economic, political and judicial pressures on Jewish goldsmiths.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 671-690 |
Number of pages | 20 |
Journal | European Review of History/Revue Europeenne d'Histoire |
Volume | 21 |
Issue number | 5 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 20 Sep 2014 |
Bibliographical note
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Keywords
- French Morocco
- Islamic city
- Jewish monopoly
- articulation of modes of production
- colonial Capitalism
- values of Hisba
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- History