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Violent Interests : Capitalism and Social Transformation in the Eastern Mediterranean Kristen Alff
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Alff, Kristen.
- Series:
- Stanford Ottoman World Series: Critical Studies in Empire, Nature, and Knowledge Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sursuq, Dimitri Jabbour, 1788-1815.
- Sursuq, Musa Dimitri, 1815-1888.
- Sursuq, Jirjis Musa, 1855-1910.
- Sursuq, Alfred Musa, 1870-1924.
- Sursuq, Emilie Khalil.
- Capitalism.
- Economic conditions.
- Beirut (Lebanon)--Economic conditions--19th century.
- Beirut (Lebanon).
- Beirut (Lebanon)--Economic conditions--20th century.
- Middle East--Commerce--Europe, Western--History.
- Middle East.
- Europe, Western--Commerce--Middle East--History.
- Europe, Western.
- Middle East--Economic conditions--19th century.
- Middle East--Economic conditions--20th century.
- Local Subjects:
- Sursuq, Dimitri Jabbour, 1788-1815.
- Sursuq, Musa Dimitri, 1815-1888.
- Sursuq, Jirjis Musa, 1855-1910.
- Sursuq, Alfred Musa, 1870-1924.
- Sursuq, Emilie Khalil.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (288 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Redwood City : Stanford University Press, 2026.
- Summary:
- Between the 1830s and 1930s, companies established by Beirut-based businessmen emerged among the largest shareholders in major British manufacturing and trading companies.These companies transformed from small family partnerships to large shareholder corporations that wielded significant influence across the Eastern Mediterranean and Europe.
- Contents:
- Big business in Beirut
- Boom times
- Gendering the joint-stock company
- Transforming land and labor
- Scales of violence
- Unsettling property and state.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Part of the metadata in this record was created by AI, based on the text of the resource.
- ISBN:
- 1-5036-4678-5
- OCLC:
- 1587075855
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