Sea Change

Ottoman Textiles between the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-0-520-30359-1
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 360 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 183 mm x 261 mm, Gewicht: 1072 g

Textiles were the second-most-traded commodity in all of world history, preceded only by grain. In the Ottoman Empire in particular, the sale and exchange of silks, cottons, and woolens generated an immense amount of revenue and touched every level of society, from rural women tending silkworms to pashas flaunting layers of watered camlet to merchants traveling to Mecca and beyond. Sea Change offers the first comprehensive history of the Ottoman textile sector, arguing that the trade's enduring success resulted from its openness to expertise and objects from far-flung locations. Amanda Phillips skillfully marries art history with social and economic history, integrating formal analysis of various textiles into wider discussions of how trade, technology, and migration impacted the production and consumption of textiles in the Mediterranean from around 1400 to 1800. Surveying a vast network of textile topographies that stretched from India to Italy and from Egypt to Iran, Sea Change illuminates often neglected aspects of material culture, showcasing the objects' ability to tell new kinds of stories.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Phillips, Amanda

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Fertigungsindustrie Textilindustrie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Translations, Transliterations, and Terminologies

Introduction

PART 1
1. Technology, History, and Terminology, ca. 1200–1400

2. Weaving in Anatolia: International Styles and Local Production, 1390–1500

PART 2
3. Imperial Appetites, Shared Technologies, 1500–1650

4. Regulation and Contravention, 1500–1700

PART 3
5. Worlds of Goods: Consumption and Production, 1550–1750

6. Emulation, Imitation, and Novelty, 1700–1800

Conclusion

Appendix
Abbreviations
Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
List of Illustrations
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Amanda Phillips is Assistant Professor of Islamic Art and Material Culture at the University of Virginia. She is the author of Everyday Luxuries: Art and Objects in Ottoman Constantinople, 1600–1800.