Mediterranean Encounters

Trade and Pluralism in Early Modern Galata
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-0-520-28992-5
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 424 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 237 mm x 162 mm, Gewicht: 704 g

Mediterranean Encounters traces the layered history of Galata—a Mediterranean and Black Sea port—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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zarinebaf, Fariba

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte Europäische Regional- & Stadtgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List 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

Über Autor(innen)

Fariba Zarinebaf is Professor of History at the University of California, Riverside. She is the author of Crime and Punishment in Istanbul, 1700–1800 and coauthor with John Bennet and Jack L. Davis of A Historical and Economic Geography of Ottoman Greece: The Southwestern Morea in the 18th Century.