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Levant trade in the later Middle Ages / Eliyahu Ashtor.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ashtor, Eliyahu, 1914-1984, author.
- Series:
- Princeton Legacy Library
- Princeton legacy library
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Middle East--Commerce--Europe--History--To 1500.
- Middle East.
- Europe--Commerce--Middle East--History--To 1500.
- Europe.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (0 p.)
- Edition:
- Course Book
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1983]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The book is based on Arabic sources, documents in archives of centers of Levantine trade, and material from the files of the firm of Francesco Datini. From the fall of Acre to the journey of Vasco de Gama, the author provides an invaluable description of late medieval Mediterranean trade.Originally published in 1984.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- Tables
- Preface
- I. The Crisis of Levant Trade (1291-1344)
- II. Back to Egypt and Syria (1345-1370)
- III. A New Period of Growth (1370-1402)
- IV. The Ascendancy of Venice (1403-1421)
- V. A New Crisis (1422-1452)
- VI. The Levant Trader at Home and Overseas
- VII. Mediaeval Levant Trade at Its Height (1453-1498)
- Appendices
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Bibliography: pages [560]-575.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780691640822
- 0691640823
- 9780691612928
- 0691612927
- 9781400853168
- 1400853168
- OCLC:
- 889248749
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