Mediterranean encounters : trade and pluralism in early modern Galata /

Mediterranean encounters : trade and pluralism in early modern Galata /

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Author / Creator:	Zarinebaf, F. (Fariba), 1959- author.
Imprint:	Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018] ©2017
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Subject:	Galata (Istanbul, Turkey) -- History. Turkey -- Istanbul -- Galata. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12589657

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ISBN:	9780520964310 0520964314 9780520289925 (cloth : alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.
Summary:	"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"--Provided by publisher.
Other form:	Print version: Zarinebaf, F. (Fariba), 1959- author. Mediterranean encounters Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017] 9780520289925

Table of Contents:

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