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Alexandria
archives
Author_Zoe Ann Griffith
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commercial capitalism
early modernity
eastern Mediterranean
Egypt
Egypt merchants
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imperial governance
Islamic law and commerce
Mediterranean studies
microhistory
middling classes
Muslim merchants
Ottoman Empire
Ottoman merchants
Ottoman reforms
political economy
port cities
provisioning
rice
Rosetta
state and economy
subaltern studies
Product details
- ISBN 9780520416635
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 14 Apr 2026
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Egypt's Mediterranean explores the intersections of commerce and statecraft in the eighteenth-century Ottoman Empire through the lives of overlooked intermediaries who lived and worked on Egypt's Mediterranean coast. Egypt's port cities mediated the geographic distance and economic scales between the province's agricultural landscape, its Red Sea connections, its hegemonic capital city, and its position within the wider Ottoman realm, while Ottoman Muslim merchants acted as linchpins of imperial governance in Egypt, mediating the state's access to Egyptian wealth. Drawing on Arabic, Ottoman, and French sources, Egypt's Mediterranean foregrounds the role of Muslims and Islamic law in Mediterranean history, decentering European capital and actors in an interconnected story of imperial realignment and changing fortunes on the eve of modernity.
Zoe Griffith is Assistant Professor of History at Baruch College, CUNY.
