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  • 1 - Caravans Exposed

  • Philippe Pétriat, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
  • Book:
    The Last Caravan
    Published online:
    09 January 2025
    Print publication:
    23 January 2025, pp 39-72

  • Summary

    This chapter contrasts with the introduction by focusing on an event that an intersection of different sources (Ottoman, Arabic, English and French sources) document in an exceptional way: the attack of a big caravan on its road from Damascus to Baghdad in 1857. Its aims at plunging readers into the life, business and management of caravans in the mid-nineteenth century – a period that is introduced here as a turning point for life and business in the steppe in the Ottoman realms. Built as an enquiry into the attack and into what the historiography has considered a handicap of overland trade (insecurity) unlike oceanic trade, this chapter illuminates the regional system institutionalised by Bedouin/State/Traders to deal efficiently with insecurity and hazards of caravan trade over long distances.