Transottoman matters : : objects moving through time, space, and meaning / / edited by Arkadiusz Blaszczyk, Robert Born, Florian Riedler.

• TeilnehmendeR: Blaszczyk, Arkadiusz,; Born, Robert,; Riedler, Florian,
• Place / Publishing House: Göttingen : : V&R unipress,, 2021.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (169 pages)

"This volume analyzes historical processes of mobility by focusing on material objects. Mobility--as a shorthand for various related processes such as migration, transfer, entanglement, and translation--involves human actors, immaterial elements such as ideas and knowledge, but also objects in various forms and functions. For example, as material infrastructures they are the basis for transport and travel; as goods they are the object and purpose of trade or gift exchange. By focusing on the way objects determined certain processes of mobility and how their social meaning and materiality was transformed in these processes, the contributors hope to gain deeper insight into the historical relations between the Ottoman Empire, Eastern Europe, and Persia"--Back cover.

Table of Contents

Body 7 -- Introduction Movable Objects 9 -- Around the Black Sea in FortyFive Days Transottoman Space Time and Infrastructure 27 -- Mobile Metals On the Role of Natural Resources in the Geopolitical Context of the Eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East ir 61 -- Cairo and Coffee in the Transottoman Trade Network 83 -- Petroleum Commodity Products and Infrastructures as Transottoman Mobilities around 1900 99 -- From the Forests of Siberia to the Urban Jungle of Istanbul The OttomanMuscovite Fur Exchange in the Sixteenth and Seventee 119 -- Uses of Oriental Rugs in Early Modern PolandLithuania Social Practices and Public Discourses 173 -- Rugs as Transottoman Commodities The History of a Rug from Uşak 219 -- Imperial Russias Egyptian Endeavors The Purchase of Amenhoteps Sphinxes 273 -- Conclusion A Transottoman Lens on Object Mobilities in a longue durée 305 -- List of Contributors 313 -- Index 315.