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Paperback Plumes: Ostrich Feathers, Jews, and a Lost World of Global Commerce Book
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ISBN: 0300168187

ISBN13: 9780300168181

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

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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...

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