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Mediterranean Encounters : Trade and Pluralism in Early Modern Galata
Cover -- Mediterranean Encounters -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration and Translation -- Introduction -- PART ONE THE URBAN SETTING -- 1 A Layered History: From a Genoese Colony to an Ottoman Port -- 2 The Rise of P...
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| Document Type: | Online Resource Book |
| Language: | English |
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Berkeley
: University of California Press
, 2018
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| Online Access: | http://proxy.fid-lizenzen.de/han/proquest-ebook-central-altertum/ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bsbfidaltertumswissenschaften/detail.action?docID=5430411 |
| Related Items: | Erscheint auch als:
Mediterranean Encounters : Trade and Pluralism in Early Modern Galata |
| E-Book Packages: | ProQuest Ebook Central : Classical Studies Collection |
| Summary: | Cover -- Mediterranean Encounters -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration and Translation -- Introduction -- PART ONE THE URBAN SETTING -- 1 A Layered History: From a Genoese Colony to an Ottoman Port -- 2 The Rise of Pera: From Necropolis to Diplomatic and Commercial Hub -- PART TWO THE LEGAL AND DIPLOMATIC SETTING -- 3 Ottoman Ahdnames: Their Origins and Development in the Early Modern Period -- 4 War, Diplomacy, and Trade in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries -- PART THREE COMMERCIAL AND CULTURAL ENCOUNTERS -- 5 Feeding Istanbul: The Merchants of Galata and the Provisioning Trade -- 6 Between Galata and Marseille: From Silks and Spices to Colonial Sugar and Coffee -- 7 Sexual and Cultural Encounters in Public and Private Spaces -- Epilogue: The Unraveling of the French Revolution in Pera -- Appendix: Archival Documents in English Translation -- Glossary -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. Mediterranean Encounters traces the layered history of Galata--a Mediterranean and Black Sea port--to the Ottoman conquest, and its transformation into a hub of European trade and diplomacy as well as a pluralist society of the early modern period. Framing the history of Ottoman-European encounters within the institution of ahdnames (commercial and diplomatic treaties), this thoughtful book offers a critical perspective on the existing scholarship. For too long, the Ottoman empire has been defined as an absolutist military power driven by religious conviction, culturally and politically apart from the rest of Europe, and devoid of a commercial policy. By taking a close look at Galata, Fariba Zarinebaf provides a different approach based on a history of commerce, coexistence, competition, and collaboration through the lens of Ottoman legal records, diplomatic correspondence, and petitions. She shows that this port was just as cosmopolitan and pluralist as any large European port and argues that the Ottoman world was not peripheral to European modernity but very much part of it |
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| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (423 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780520964310 |
