Mediterranean encounters : trade and pluralism in early modern Galata / Fariba Zarinebaf.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zarinebaf, F. (Fariba), 1959- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cultural pluralism.

Galata (Istanbul, Turkey)--History.

Galata (Istanbul, Turkey).

Cultural pluralism--Turkey.

Turkey--Istanbul--Galata.

Turkey.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xvii, 404 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]

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.

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.

Notes:

"Glossary": pages 297-302.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Zarinebaf, F. (Fariba), 1959- Mediterranean encounters.

ISBN:

9780520289925

0520289927

9780520289932

0520289935

OCLC:

1015265295