ISBN: 9780520289932

Mediterranean Encounters traces the layered history of Galataâ??a Mediterranean and Black Sea portâ??to the Ottoman conquest, and its transformation into a hub of European trade and diplo… Mehr…

Mediterranean Encounters traces the layered history of Galataâ??a Mediterranean and Black Sea portâ??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. | Mediterranean Encounters by Fariba Zarinebaf Paperback | Indigo Chapters Books > History > European History P10103, Fariba Zarinebaf<

2018, ISBN: 0520289935

[EAN: 9780520289932], Neubuch, [PU: University of California Press], New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days., Books

2018, ISBN: 9780520289932

University of California Press, 2018. Book. New. Paperback. New and in stock., University of California Press, 2018, 6

2018, ISBN: 9780520289932

Univ of California Pr, 2018. Paperback. New. 404 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.00 inches., Univ of California Pr, 2018, 6