Overview
Textiles were the second-most-traded commodity in all of world history, preceded only by grain. In the Ottoman Empire in particular, the sale and exchange of silks, cottons, and woolens generated an immense amount of revenue and touched every level of society, from rural women tending silkworms to pashas flaunting layers of watered camlet to merchants traveling to Mecca and beyond. Sea Change offers the first comprehensive history of the Ottoman textile sector, arguing that the trade's enduring success resulted from its openness to expertise and objects from far-flung locations. Amanda Phillips skillfully marries art history with social and economic history, integrating formal analysis of various textiles into wider discussions of how trade, technology, and migration impacted the production and consumption of textiles in the Mediterranean from around 1400 to 1800. Surveying a vast network of textile topographies that stretched from India to Italy and from Egypt to Iran, Sea Change illuminates often neglected aspects of material culture, showcasing the objects' ability to tell new kinds of stories.
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Author: Amanda Phillips
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Dimensions:
Width: 17.80cm
, Height: 2.80cm
, Length: 25.40cm
Weight: 1.089kg
ISBN: 9780520303591
ISBN 10: 0520303598
Pages: 360
Publication Date: 20 April 2021
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments Translations, Transliterations, and Terminologies Introduction PART 1 1. Technology, History, and Terminology, ca. 1200–1400 2. Weaving in Anatolia: International Styles and Local Production, 1390–1500 PART 2 3. Imperial Appetites, Shared Technologies, 1500–1650 4. Regulation and Contravention, 1500–1700 PART 3 5. Worlds of Goods: Consumption and Production, 1550–1750 6. Emulation, Imitation, and Novelty, 1700–1800 Conclusion Appendix Abbreviations Glossary Notes Bibliography List of Illustrations Index
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That [textiles'] significance is underestimated by westward-thinking art historians is a wide gap in scholarship, which Sea Change begins to fill with clear delineations of prose offering readers meticulous insight into the pragmatics of the textile craft and the inspirations of its creative flourishing across classes and cultures. * Daily Sabah * A valuable addition to the field of Ottoman textiles, art history, and Islamic studies. It offers a comprehensive and insightful examination of the history of Ottoman textile production and its significance in the Ottoman Empire and beyond. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in the subject and is highly recommended for scholars and students alike. * Journal of the Oriental Rug and Textile Society *
That [textiles'] significance is underestimated by westward-thinking art historians is a wide gap in scholarship, which Sea Change begins to fill with clear delineations of prose offering readers meticulous insight into the pragmatics of the textile craft and the inspirations of its creative flourishing across classes and cultures. * Daily Sabah *
Author Information
Amanda Phillips is Assistant Professor of Islamic Art and Material Culture at the University of Virginia. She is the author of Everyday Luxuries: Art and Objects in Ottoman Constantinople, 1600–1800.
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