1.Introduction -- 2Atlantic Reflections: Italian Spirits and Business Communities in Americas -- 3.Italians in Southern Brasil: Tradition and Innovation -- 4.Business and Transmission of “Knowledge”: Italian Migration to Brasil -- 5.Science, Techniques, Ideas: Italian Emigration in the...

This chapter discusses the strong impact of economic forces, and changes in the economic environment, on American Jewish observance and American Jewish religious institutions in the 20th century. Beginning with the immigrants' experience of dramatic economic change between the old country and...

This research argues that variations in the interplay between cultural assimilation and cultural diffusion have played a significant role in giving rise to differential patterns of economic development across the globe. Societies that were geographically less vulnerable to cultural diffusion,...