Trade, diplomacy and state formation in the early modern Mediterranean: Fakhr al-Dīn II, the sublime...

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" Trade, diplomacy and state formation in the early modern Mediterranean: Fakhr al-Dīn II, the sublime Porte and the court of Tuscany "
Alessandro Olsaretti

Document Type	:	Latin Dissertation
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	53536
Doc. No	:	TL23490
Call number	:	‭MR24902‬
Main Entry	:	Alessandro Olsaretti
Title & Author	:	Trade, diplomacy and state formation in the early modern Mediterranean: Fakhr al-Dīn II, the sublime Porte and the court of Tuscany\ Alessandro Olsaretti
College	:	McGill University (Canada)
Date	:	2006
Degree	:	M.A.
student score	:	2006
Page No	:	149
Abstract	:	This thesis explores the relations between the Druze emir Fakhr al-Dīn II Ma'n and three successive Medici Grand Dukes between 1605 and 1633. Eschewing traditional historiographical concerns with the origins of Lebanese nationalism and the cultural encounter between East and West, I have sought first and above all to locate relations between this powerful emir and the Court of Tuscany within the broader context of Mediterranean history. I suggest that the actions of Fakhr al-Dīn and of the Medici Grand Dukes have to be understood in relation to broad, long-term trends in the economic and social history of the Mediterranean. I explore two of these trends in detail: the breakdown in commercial and diplomatic relations between Florence (and then Tuscany) and the Ottoman empire during the course of the sixteenth century; the bargaining between the Porte and provincial power-holders in the Syrian provinces in the century following the Ottoman conquest.
Subject	:	Social sciences; Italy; Ottoman Empire; Biographies; Middle Eastern history; European history; History; 0582:History; 0304:Biographies; 0335:European history; 0333:Middle Eastern history
Added Entry	:	McGill University (Canada)