Transottoman matters : : objects moving through time, space, and meaning / / edited by Arkadiusz Blaszczyk, Robert Born, Florian Riedler.
"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...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Göttingen : : V&R unipress,, 2021. |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (169 pages) |
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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.