ISBN:
9781107173880
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1107173884
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9781316626276
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131662627X
Language:
English
Pages:
xvi, 301 Seiten
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Illustrationen, Karten
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24 cm
Series Statement:
Asian connections
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Lambourn, Elizabeth, 1966 - Abraham's luggage
DDC:
382.09182/4
Keywords:
Ben Yijû, Abraham
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Ben Yijû, Abraham active 12th century Ben Yijû, Abraham active 12th century
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To 1500
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Jewish merchants
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Commerce History Medieval, 500-1500
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Jewish merchants Middle East
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Commerce History
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Medieval, 500-1500
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Commerce
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Commerce Medieval
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Jewish merchants
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India Commerce To 1500
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History
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India Commerce
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History
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To 1500
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India
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Middle East
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Ben Yijû, Abraham
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Indischer Ozean Region
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Fernhandel
Abstract:
From a single merchant's list of baggage begins a history that explores the dynamic world of medieval Indian Ocean exchanges. This fresh and innovative perspective on Jewish merchant activity shows how this list was a component of broader trade connections that developed between the Islamic Mediterranean and South Asia in the Middle Ages. Drawing on a close reading of this unique twelfth-century document, found in the Cairo Genizah and written in India by North African merchant Abraham Ben Yiju, Lambourn focuses on the domestic material culture and foods that structured the daily life of such India traders, on land and at sea. This is an exploration of the motivations and difficulties of maintaining homes away from home, and the compromises that inevitably ensued. 'Abraham's Luggage' demonstrates the potential for writing challenging new histories in the accidental survival of apparently ordinary ephemera
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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