Merchants in the Ottoman Empire (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9789042920255)

To a large extent the present volume deals with merchants established on Ottoman territory for a long time. Whether they were subjects of the sultans or not will be considered of secondary importance; but many if not most of them probably fell into that category. 'Hard to pin down' traders also occur; in particular we have included a number of studies discussing people who started their lives as Ottoman subjects but whose business activities took them to Venice or the Habsburg territories, where some of them struck roots. Such situations after all form part of the life stories of merchants anywhere; and given the broad expanses of sea and land that many Mediterranean traders traversed, it makes sense to adopt as broad a perspective as possible.

Author: S. Faroqhi
ISBN-10: 9042920254
ISBN-13: 9789042920255
Publisher: Peeters
Language: English
Published: 11/06/2008
Pages: 355
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.30w x 0.90d