Mediterranean Encounters : Trade and Pluralism in Early Modern Galata / Fariba Zarinebaf.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zarinebaf, Fariba, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Galata (Istanbul, Turkey)--History.

Galata (Istanbul, Turkey).

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (423 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Note on Transliteration and Translation

Introduction

Part One: The Urban Setting

1. A Layered History: From a Genoese Colony to an Ottoman Port

2. The Rise of Pera: From Necropolis to Diplomatic and Commercial Hub

Part Two: The Legal and Diplomatic Setting

3. Ottoman Ahdnames: Their Origins and Development in the Early Modern Period

4. War, Diplomacy, and Trade in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

Part Three: Commercial and Cultural Encounters

5. Feeding Istanbul: Th e Merchants of Galata and the Provisioning Trade

6. Between Galata and Marseille: From Silks and Spices to Colonial Sugar and Coffee

7. Sexual and Cultural Encounters in Public and Private Spaces

Epilogue: The Unraveling of the French Revolution in Pera

Appendix: Archival Documents in English Translation

Glossary

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Dez 2019)

ISBN:

9780520964310

0520964314

OCLC:

1019833305