Merchants of Essaouira: Urban Society and Imperialism in Southwestern Morocco, 1844-1886

by Daniel Schroeter and Daniel J. Schroeter

Book Overview

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 Morocco, papers of Jewish merchant houses and consular records of Britain, France and the United States, this...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521105404
• ISBN13: 9780521105408
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 348 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"