Ethnic and Religious Hostilities in Early Modern Port Cities

An analysis of ethnic and religious conflict in early modern port cities, such as Amsterdam, Genoa, and several Islamic cities in the Ottoman Empire including Constantinople. The essay reflects on the connection between maritime trade and the freedom of conscience that promotes tolerance, civility,...

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Published in:International journal of politics, culture, and society culture, and society, 2001-07, Vol.14 (4), p.687-727
Main Author: Moore, Barrington
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Christianity
Cities
Ethnic Relations
Hostility
International trade
Jewish peoples
Maritime history
Merchants
Middle Ages
Minority & ethnic violence
Muslims
Oligarchy
Ottoman Empire
Ports
Protestantism
Religious Cultural Groups
Slavery
Slaves
Social Conflict
Tolerance
Trade
Two Essays
Western Society
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Summary:An analysis of ethnic and religious conflict in early modern port cities, such as Amsterdam, Genoa, and several Islamic cities in the Ottoman Empire including Constantinople. The essay reflects on the connection between maritime trade and the freedom of conscience that promotes tolerance, civility, and a lessening of violence toward outsiders. It examines ethnocentrism, anti-Semitism, and the institution of slavery in early modern port cities, as well as milieux that fostered pluralism such as the Exchange, gambling dens, military units, and the harem. Most important, it explores the decisive role of merchant oligarchies, relatively open elites, in promoting tolerance.
ISSN:0891-4486
1573-3416
DOI:10.1023/a:1011166822292