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Article: Everyday Life and Consumer Culture in 18th-Century Damascus
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- Business History Review
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- July 1, 2008
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Everyday Life and Consumer Culture in 18th-Century Damascus. By James Grehan. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2007. xvi + 320 pp. Illustrations, figures, tables, appendix, bibliography, notes, index. Cloth, $50.00. ISBN: 978-0-295-98676-0.
Reviewed by James A. Reilly
In Everyday Life and Consumer Culture in 18th-century Damascus, James Grehan describes and analyzes material evidence of everyday life and consumption patterns in the city of Damascus during the eighteenth century. Although a major portion is given over to discussions of food and drink, he also covers domestic space and clothing. The scholarship proceeds most immediately from earlier work by Jean-Paul Pascual and ...