Views from the Edge
Subtitle: Essays in Honor of Richard W. Bulliet (Published by the Middle East Institute of Columbia University)
Contributors: Neguin Yavari (Editor); Lawrence G. Potter (Editor); Jean-Marc Ran Oppenheim (Editor)
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: November 30, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780231134729
Subjects: World history; History - General History; History: World; Middle East; Essays; Islam - History; Middle East - General; History / Middle East; Civilization; Historiography; History; Islamic countries
First sentence: This is a brief comparative study of several trading groups in the seventeenth century and of their participation in state-building in their host societies as "trade diaspora."