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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...
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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 |
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Postal systems in the pre-modern Islamic world / |c Adam J. Silverstein. |
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| 520 | 1 | |a "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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| 505 | 0 | |a Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Maps; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; Part I The pre-Islamic background; Chapter 1 Pre-Islamic postal systems; Part II Conquest and centralisation -- the Arabs; Chapter 2 al-Barid: the early Islamic postal system; Chapter 3 Diwan al-Barid: the Middle Abbasid period; Part III Conquest and centralisation -- the Mongols; Chapter 4 The Mongol Yam and its legacy; Chapter 5 The Mamluk Barid; Conclusions; Appendix: distances and speeds of the Barid; Bibliography; Index | |
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