{"product_id":"mediterranean-encounters-9780520289932","title":"Mediterranean Encounters","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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 *\u003cbr\u003e\"Chapters are each long and detailed, grounded in archival detail, and often threading together several related but distinct topics.\" * Journal of Interdisciplinary History *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations ix\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments xi\u003cbr\u003e Note on Transliteration and Translation xvii\u003cbr\u003e Introduction 1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e PART ONE\u003cbr\u003e THE URBAN SETTING\u003cbr\u003e 1 • A Layered History: From a Genoese Colony to an Ottoman Port 23\u003cbr\u003e 2 • The Rise of Pera: From Necropolis to Diplomatic and Commercial Hub 68\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e PART TWO\u003cbr\u003e THE LEGAL AND DIPLOMATIC SETTING\u003cbr\u003e 3 • Ottoman Ahdnames: Their Origins and Development in the Early Modern Period 91\u003cbr\u003e 4 • War, Diplomacy, and Trade in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries 126\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e PART THREE\u003cbr\u003e COMMERCIAL AND CULTURAL ENCOUNTERS\u003cbr\u003e 5 • Feeding Istanbul: The Merchants of Galata and the Provisioning Trade 153\u003cbr\u003e 6 • Between Galata and Marseille: From Silks and Spices to Colonial Sugar and Coffee 185\u003cbr\u003e 7 • Sexual and Cultural Encounters in Public and Private Spaces 233\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue: The Unraveling of the French Revolution in Pera 273\u003cbr\u003e Appendix: Archival Documents in English Translation 291\u003cbr\u003e Glossary 297\u003cbr\u003e Notes 303\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography 361","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402885538135,"sku":"9780520289932","price":28.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/mediterranean-encounters-9780520289932","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}