Pashas
Subtitle: traders and travellers in the Islamic world
By: James Mather.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780300126396
Subjects: Company of Merchants of England Trading to the Levant -- History; British -- Travel -- Middle East -- History; Merchants -- Middle East -- History; Travelers -- Middle East -- History; Middle East -- Description and travel; Islamic countries -- Description and travel; Turkey -- Description and travel; Turkey -- History -- Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918; Middle East -- Relations -- Great Britain; Great Britain -- Relations -- Middle East
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: Jerusalem; title: pt. 1. Aleppo; title: Trading places; title: People of the book; title: pt. 2. Constantinople; title: Ambassadors' palaces; title: Objects of enquiry; title: pt. 3. Alexandria; title: The last pashas; title: Epilogue: Crescent empire.