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Merchants of Essaouira: Urban Society and Imperialism in Southwestern Morocco, 1844-1886 (Cambridge Middle East Library)
Merchants of Essaouira Urban Society and Imperialism in Southwestern Morocco 18441886 - Cambridge Middle East Library
Author: Daniel J. Schroeter
Essaouira was founded n 1764 by Sultan Sidi Muhammad b. Abdullah as his port for developing trade with Europe. Through a group of Jewish middlemen, it served as a link between Europe, Morocco and su-Saharan Africa. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries its fame rivalled Tripoli, Tunis and Algiers. Based on extensive untapped archive in Moro...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780521324557
ISBN-10: 0521324556
Publication Date: 4/29/1988
Pages: 352
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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