Introduction: Exchange Ideologies, Patriarchy, and Economic Liberalization in Syria -- 1. Aleppo in Space and Time -- 2. Exchange Ideologies of Urban-Rural Difference -- 3. Merchant Patriarchy and the State -- 4. Economic Patriarchy and Contested Modernities -- 5. The Hospitality Economy -- 6. Civic Patronage -- 7. Affective Economies of Sincerity and Economic Liberalization in Aleppo -- Conclusion: Exchange Ideologies and the Futures of the Syrian Nation -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary
""The book is an account of economic liberalization in Aleppo in the 2000s as a social and cultural process as much as a political and economic one. It charts the understandings of commerce and of merchants that came to the fore in Syria as Baathism declined as an official ideology"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 23, 2023)
