The Trade in Papers Marked with Non-Latin Characters / Le commerce des papiers à marques à caractères non-latins

"The nine contributions in The Trade in Papers Marked with non-Latin Characters initiated by Anne Regourd (ed.) approach global history through the paper trade. They cover, in addition to a paper used in 14th C Persia, papers used in Africa (Ethiopia, Nigeria, Tunisia) and Asia (the Ottoman Levant, Mecca, Persia, Russia, and Yemen) during the 19th-20th C. Primarily based on paper examination and quantitative data, the book invites us to treat papers as a source, and provides tools to determine the production of manuscripts in space and time for the area of interest. This methodology offers new insights on the competition between suppliers to the various markets particularly in respect of the emergence of import-export trading companies"--

שנה

2018

שפה

English

הוצאה

Brill

מהדורות

1

עמודים

288

ISBN

9789004357402

מקור הנתונים: Wikidata