The British Navy, Rijeka and A.L. Adamić : war and trade in the Adriatic 1800-25 /
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One of the lesser known theatres of operations in the long wars between Great Britain and Napoleon was the Adriatic, where the activities of the British navy played a vital role in controlling and limiting the extension of French power eastwards into the Balkans and the Ottoman Empire; in maintaining access, diplomatic, financial and commercial, to the Austrian Empire; and in preventing the construction of new French battleships in the Venice Arsenal from adversely affecting British naval superiority. Until now, most studies on the British side have concentrated on the exploits of the British naval officers involved, particularly Captain William Hoste; those in Croatia have been largely limited to such secondary sources and to historical traditions based mainly on French and local records.
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Also issued in print: 2005.
"The following text was written as one of a collection of essays to be published by the Muzej Grada Rijeke (Town Museum Rijeke) in connection with the exhibition "Adamićevo doba" (the Era of Adamić) 1780-1830 presented in Rijeka in April-May 2005" -- Title page verso. :
1 online resource (97 pages) : map (colour) :
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Includes bibliographical references. :
9781803272764 (PDF ebook) :
The Capitulations and the Ottoman Legal System : Qadis, Consuls and Beratlıs in the 18th Century /
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Pre-modern Western sources generally claim that European mercantile communities in the Ottoman Empire enjoyed legal autonomy, and were thus effectively immune to Ottoman justice. At the same time, they report numerous disputes with Ottoman officials over jurisdiction ("avanias"), which seems to contradict this claim, the discrepancy being considered proof of the capriciousness of the Ottoman legal system. Modern studies of Ottoman-European relations in this period have tended uncritically to accept this interpretation, which is challenged in this book.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789047406129
9789004140356
The Cornucopian Stage : Performing Commerce in Early Modern China /
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The long seventeenth century in China was a period of tremendous commercial expansion, and no literary genre was better equipped to articulate its possibilities than southern drama. As a form and a practice, southern drama was in the business of world-building-both in its structural imperative to depict and reconcile the social whole and in its creation of entire economies dependent on its publication and performance. However, the early modern commercial world repelled rather than engaged most playwrights, who consigned its totems-the merchant and his money-to the margins as sources of political suspicion and cultural anxiety. In The Cornucopian Stage , Ariel Fox examines a body of influential yet understudied plays by a circle of Suzhou playwrights who enlisted the theatrical imaginary to very different ends. In plays about long-distance traders and small-time peddlers, impossible bargains and broken contracts, strings of cash and storehouses of silver, the Suzhou circle placed commercial forms not only at center stage but at the center of a new world coming into being. Here, Fox argues, the economic character of early modern selfhood is recast as fundamentally productive-as the basis for new subject positions, new kinds of communities, and new modes of art. See Less
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Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9780674293755
9781684176816