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Mediterranean Encounters: Trade and Pluralism in Early Modern Galata

by: Zarinebaf, F.

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Category: Modern Greece
Code: 23846
ISBN-13: 9780520289932 / 978-0-520-28993-2
ISBN-10: 0520289935 / 0-520-28993-5
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication Date: 2018
Publication Place: Berkeley
Binding: Paper
Pages: 404
Book Condition: New

 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

A layered history : from a Genoese colony to an Ottoman port
The rise of Pera : from a necropolis to diplomatic and commercial hub
Ottoman ahdnames, origins and development in the early modern period
War, diplomacy and trade in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
Feeding Istanbul : the merchants of Galata and the provisioning trade
Between Galata and Marseille : from silks and spices to colonial sugar and coffee
Sexual and cultural encounters in public and private spaces
Epilogue : the unraveling of the French Revolution in Pera
Appendix : Ottoman documents in English translation

Subjects:
Außenhandel
Cultural pluralism
Cultural pluralism Turkey
Europa
Galata (Istanbul, Turkey) History
Handel
History
Istanbul-Galata
Kulturkontakt
Osmanisches Reich
Turkey
Turkey Istanbul Galata
Türkei
Wirtschaftsbeziehungen

xvii, 404 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

 
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Mediterranean Encounters: Trade and Pluralism in Early Modern Galata

by: Zarinebaf, F.

  • ISBN-13: 9780520289932 / 978-0-520-28993-2
  • ISBN-03: 0520289935 / 0-520-28993-5
  • University of California Press, Berkeley, 2018

Price: 36,00 EURO

(in stock)