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Postal systems in the pre-modern Islamic world /
"Adam Silverstein's book offers an account of the official methods of communication employed in the Near East from pre-Islamic times through the Mamluk period. Postal systems were set up by rulers in order to maintain control over vast tracts of land. These systems, invented centuries befo...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK :
Cambridge University Press,
2007.
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| Colección: | Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "Adam Silverstein's book offers an account of the official methods of communication employed in the Near East from pre-Islamic times through the Mamluk period. Postal systems were set up by rulers in order to maintain control over vast tracts of land. These systems, invented centuries before steam-engines or cars, enabled the swift circulation of different commodities - from letters, people and horses to exotic fruits and ice. As the correspondence transported often included confidential reports from a ruler's provinces, such postal systems doubled as espionage-networks through which news reached the central authorities quickly enough to allow a timely reaction to events. The book sheds light not only on the role of communications technology in Islamic history, but also on how nomadic culture contributed to empire-building in the Near East. This is a contribution to the history of pre-modern communications systems in the Near Eastern world." |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 214 pages) : maps |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 194-208) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0511289693 9780511289699 9780511290299 0511290292 9780511497520 0511497520 9780521147613 0521147611 |