Exchange Ideologies: Commerce, Language, and Patriarchy in Preconflict Aleppo

by Paul Anderson

Book Overview

Exchange Ideologies documents the social world of Aleppo's traders before the destruction of the city, exploring changing conceptions of commerce in Syria. Syria's traders have been seen as embodying a timeless culture of "the bazaar," or an ahistorical Islamic culture of trade. Other accounts portray them as venal figures, motivated only by profit, and commerce as a purely instrumental pursuit. Rejecting both approaches, Paul...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501768301
• ISBN13: 9781501768309
• Release Date: March 2023
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher