The Last Caravan
Hardback or Cased Book 00306 pages Jan 23, 2025
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What can travelling camels tell us about the history of the interior of the Middle East? In this innovative book Philippe Pétriat demonstrates how caravans - groups of travellers, often on trade expeditions, journeying together for mutual protection in hostile regions - are essential to understanding the history of the inside territories of the Ottoman Empire with its neighbours. From the first use of camels in transport, through to the decline of the caravan from the 1930s onwards, Pétriat reconstructs the land routes of these travellers through vast steppes and deserts in captivating detail. Moving discussions of the political economy of the Ottoman and post-Ottoman Middle East beyond analysis of the coastal regions and maritime exchanges with Western countries, The Last Caravan instead reveals the pivotal importance of the Ottoman and Arab merchants in the suburbs of the cities and the rural markets and the travelling nomads and the animals that supported them.
- Author:
- Philippe Pétriat
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:
- Jan 23, 2025
- Number of pages:
- 00306 pages
- Binding:
- Hardback or Cased Book
- ISBN-10:
- 1009524526
- ISBN-13:
- 9781009524520