Mediterranean Encounters

Trade and Pluralism in Early Modern Galata

AvFariba Zarinebaf

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2018-07-24
Mått:152 x 229 x 28 mm
Vikt:590 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:University of California Press
Antal sidor:424
Förlag:University of California Press
ISBN:9780520289932

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Fariba Zarinebaf is Professor of History at the University of California, Riverside. She is the author of Crime and Punishment in Istanbul, 1700–1800 and coauthor with John Bennet and Jack L. Davis of A Historical and Economic Geography of Ottoman Greece: The Southwestern Morea in the 18th Century.

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"Zarinebaf’s work offers historians and social scientists a refreshing glimpse of how individuals and small social encounters both fuel political economic affairs, and also get swept away by them. . . . [the] book offers important scholarship."

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List of Illustrations ixAcknowledgments xiNote on Transliteration and Translation xviiIntroduction 1PART ONETHE URBAN SETTING1 • A Layered History: From a Genoese Colony to an Ottoman Port 232 • The Rise of Pera: From Necropolis to Diplomatic and Commercial Hub 68PART TWOTHE LEGAL AND DIPLOMATIC SETTING3 • Ottoman Ahdnames: Their Origins and Development in the Early Modern Period 914 • War, Diplomacy, and Trade in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries 126PART THREECOMMERCIAL AND CULTURAL ENCOUNTERS5 • Feeding Istanbul: The Merchants of Galata and the Provisioning Trade 1536 • Between Galata and Marseille: From Silks and Spices to Colonial Sugar and Coffee 1857 • Sexual and Cultural Encounters in Public and Private Spaces 233Epilogue: The Unraveling of the French Revolution in Pera 273Appendix: Archival Documents in English Translation 291Glossary 297Notes 303Bibliography 361