Abraham's Luggage

Abraham's Luggage
Author: Elizabeth Lambourn
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 319
Release: 2018-10-18
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1107173884

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A single, unique document - a list of one merchant's baggage - is the starting point used to bring to life the twelfth-century Indian Ocean. Drawing connections between material culture, foodstuffs and the construction of identity, Lambourn examines notions of home and mobility at a key moment in world history.