Everyday Life and Consumer Culture in Eighteenth-Century DamascusDamascus was for centuries a center of learning and commerce. Drawing on the city's dazzling literary tradition a rich collection of poetry, chronicles, travel accounts, and biographical dictionaries as well as on Islamic court records, James Grehan explores the material culture of premodern Damascus, reconstructing the economic infrastructure, social customs, and private consumer habits that dominated this cosmopolitan hub in the 1700s. He sketches a