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ISBN: 0520964314 9780520964310 9780520289925 Year: 2018 Publisher: Oakland, California
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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.
Galata (Istanbul, Turkey) --- History. --- adhnames. --- ahdname. --- black sea trade. --- cosmopolitanism in the ottoman empire. --- european diplomacy in the mediterranean. --- european modernity. --- european trade in the mediterranean. --- galata. --- history of commerce in the ottoman empire. --- history of the ottoman empire. --- history of the ottoman world. --- mediterranean encounters. --- mediterranean sea trade. --- merchant ships. --- middle eastern history. --- ottoman conquest. --- ottoman empire and european modernity. --- ottoman european encounters. --- pluralist society of early modern period.
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ISBN: 0520266870 9786613277312 0520947576 128327731X 0520282175 9780520947573 9781283277310 9780520266872 9780520282179 Year: 2010 Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press,
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Drawing on a rich trove of documents, including correspondence not seen for 300 years, this study explores the emergence and growth of a remarkable global trade network operated by Armenian silk merchants from a small outpost in the Persian Empire. Based in New Julfa, Isfahan, in what is now Iran, these merchants operated a network of commercial settlements that stretched from London and Amsterdam to Manila and Acapulco. The New Julfan Armenians were the only Eurasian community that was able to operate simultaneously and successfully in all the major empires of the early modern world-both land-based Asian empires and the emerging sea-borne empires-astonishingly without the benefits of an imperial network and state that accompanied and facilitated European mercantile expansion during the same period. This book brings to light for the first time the trans-imperial cosmopolitan world of the New Julfans. Among other topics, it explores the effects of long distance trade on the organization of community life, the ethos of trust and cooperation that existed among merchants, and the importance of information networks and communication in the operation of early modern mercantile communities.
Merchants --- Businesspeople --- History --- Julfa (Iṣfahān, Iran) --- Commerce --- جلفا (Iṣfahān, Iran) --- New-Julfa (Iṣfahān, Iran) --- Neu-Djoulfa (Iṣfahān, Iran) --- Jolfa (Iṣfahān, Iran) --- Nor Jugha (Iṣfahān, Iran) --- Novai︠a︡ Dzhulʹfa (Iṣfahān, Iran) --- E-books --- History of Europe --- History of Asia --- anno 1500-1799 --- Isfahan --- Merchants - Armenia - History. --- Merchants - Armenia - History - Sources --- Julfa (Iṣfahān, Iran) - Commerce - History - Sources --- acapulco. --- amsterdam. --- armenia. --- armenian merchants. --- asian empires. --- commercial settlements. --- eurasian. --- european expansion. --- global trade. --- historical. --- history of commerce. --- imperial network. --- indian ocean. --- iran. --- isfahan. --- london. --- long distance trade. --- manila. --- mediterranean sea. --- mercantile communities. --- merchant life. --- middle east. --- modern history. --- new julfa. --- nonfiction. --- persian empire. --- silk merchants. --- trade networks. --- trading outposts. --- world history.
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