The Sublime Post: How the Ottoman Imperial Post Became a Public Service (Hardcover)
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【お取り寄せ・キャンセル不可の商品】:2週間~4週間でお届け(お急ぎの方はご遠慮ください。) / 【本の説明】272ページ 156*235mm 言語:English 国:アメリカ 510g ISBN:9780300270532 / 【本の内容】A history of the postal system that once connected the Ottoman Empire Before the advent of steamships or the telegraph the premier technology for long-distance communication was the horse-run relay system. Every empire had one?including the Ottoman Empire. In The Sublime Post Choon Hwee Koh examines how the vast Ottoman postal system worked across three centuries by tracking the roles of eight small-scale actors?the Courier the Tatar Imperial Decrees the Bookkeeper the Postmaster the Villager Money and the Horse. There are stories of price-gouging postmasters; of murdered couriers and their bereaved widows; of moonlighting officials transporting merchandise; of neighboring vil