Arab Traders in Their Own Words : : Merchant Letters from the Eastern Mediterranean Around 1800 / / Boris Liebrenz.
Arab Traders in their Own Words explores for the first time the largest unified corpus of merchant correspondence to have survived from the Ottoman period. The writers chosen for this first volume were mostly Christian merchants who traded within a network that connected the Syrian and Egyptian prov...
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| Superior document: | Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East ; 165 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2022. |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East ;
165. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (711 pages) |
| Notes: | Arab Traders in their Own Words explores for the first time the largest corpus of merchant correspondence to have survived from the Ottoman period. The mostly Christian traders of the Syrian and Egyptian provinces lived through one of the most turbulent intersections of Ottoman and European imperial history. |
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Analysis
- 1. Merchants and Letters
- 1.1. Corpus and Methodology
- 1.2. Where Have All the Letters Gone?
- 2. Dramatis Personae
- 3. The Landscape of a Levantine Network
- 3.1. Damietta
- 3.2. Alexandria
- 3.3. Rosetta
- 3.4. Jaffa
- 3.5. Acre
- 3.6. Jerusalem
- 3.7. Nablus
- 3.8. Damascus
- 4. Being a Merchant
- 5. Letter Writing-Historical and Practical Perspectives
- 6. "… for the present sees what the absent does not." The Importance of Information Flow
- 7. News and Information
- 8. The World of Politics
- 9. Culture and Commerce-Merchant Patronage and Translation Movements
- 10. Language and Style
- 10.1. Syntax
- 11. Networks
- 11.1. Family
- 11.2. Community
- 12. Trade and Goods
- 12.1. Textiles
- 12.2. Coffee
- 12.3. Payments and Credit
- 12.4. Following the Money: A Case Study of Debt
- Edition
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- Additional List
- Appendix: List of Letters
- Bibliography.
- Index of Money and Financial Terms
- Index of Places
- Index of Merchandise
- Index of Persons and Groups.