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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Zarinebaf’s work offers historians and social scientists a refreshing glimpse of how individuals and small social encounters both fuel political economic affairs, and also get swept away by them. . . . [the] book offers important scholarship." * Association for the Study of the Middle East and Africa *
"Chapters are each long and detailed, grounded in archival detail, and often threading together several related but distinct topics." * Journal of Interdisciplinary History *
Table of ContentsList of Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xi
Note on Transliteration and Translation xvii
Introduction 1
PART ONE
THE URBAN SETTING
1 • A Layered History: From a Genoese Colony to an Ottoman Port 23
2 • The Rise of Pera: From Necropolis to Diplomatic and Commercial Hub 68
PART TWO
THE LEGAL AND DIPLOMATIC SETTING
3 • Ottoman Ahdnames: Their Origins and Development in the Early Modern Period 91
4 • War, Diplomacy, and Trade in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries 126
PART THREE
COMMERCIAL AND CULTURAL ENCOUNTERS
5 • Feeding Istanbul: The Merchants of Galata and the Provisioning Trade 153
6 • Between Galata and Marseille: From Silks and Spices to Colonial Sugar and Coffee 185
7 • Sexual and Cultural Encounters in Public and Private Spaces 233
Epilogue: The Unraveling of the French Revolution in Pera 273
Appendix: Archival Documents in English Translation 291
Glossary 297
Notes 303
Bibliography 361
