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OverviewA historiography of Ottoman Basra, a trade center in the eighteenth century. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Thabit A. J. AbdullahPublisher: State University of New York Press Imprint: State University of New York Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.272kg ISBN: 9780791448083ISBN 10: 0791448088 Pages: 200 Publication Date: 21 December 2000 Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General , Undergraduate Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsReviews"""This is a highly enjoyable, well-written, well-researched work, which is a pleasure to read."" - Journal of Early Modern History ""This work brings to light the extraordinary extent to which Basra and, more generally, southern Iraq were tied to India, both economically and politically. Abdullah's research in Indian archives has broken open a mindset in Ottoman historiography that refused to go beyond the Persian Gulf. In this broader context, the British stake in Basra and Iraq becomes much more comprehensible."" - Jane Hathaway, Ohio State University ""This book brings together a body of information on Basra which has not been compiled to this extent in any other work in the English language."" - Nance F. Kittner, College of St. Joseph ""I am impressed with the very broad compass of the book as well as its personal mapping of some individual merchants' lives and careers. It makes a very strong case for the regionality of Basran trade, and its connectedness with the Indian Ocean, Arabia, and Istanbul in a much understudied period. A terrific amount of secondary literature has been read and incorporated, and the author has made adroit use of archival records of the trading companies of the region."" - Virginia H. Aksan, author of An Ottoman Statesman in War and Peace: Ahmed Resmi Efendi, 1700-1783" This is a highly enjoyable, well-written, well-researched work, which is a pleasure to read. - Journal of Early Modern History This work brings to light the extraordinary extent to which Basra and, more generally, southern Iraq were tied to India, both economically and politically. Abdullah's research in Indian archives has broken open a mindset in Ottoman historiography that refused to go beyond the Persian Gulf. In this broader context, the British stake in Basra and Iraq becomes much more comprehensible. - Jane Hathaway, Ohio State University This book brings together a body of information on Basra which has not been compiled to this extent in any other work in the English language. - Nance F. Kittner, College of St. Joseph I am impressed with the very broad compass of the book as well as its personal mapping of some individual merchants' lives and careers. It makes a very strong case for the regionality of Basran trade, and its connectedness with the Indian Ocean, Arabia, and Istanbul in a much understudied period. A terrific amount of secondary literature has been read and incorporated, and the author has made adroit use of archival records of the trading companies of the region. - Virginia H. Aksan, author of An Ottoman Statesman in War and Peace: Ahmed Resmi Efendi, 1700-1783 Author InformationThabit A. J. Abdullah is Assistant Professor of History at York University. He is the editor of Arab and Islamic Studies in Honor of Marsden Jones. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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