Using a recently discovered private merchant archive (the Archivio Adami-Lami in Florence, Italy), this article reconstructs the Acre Consul Controversy, a diplomatic dispute over the appointment of a Tuscan merchant, Francesco Adami, as the first English vice-consul of the Ottoman port of Acre. Through a micro-spatial case study, documenting the emerging rivalry between European ‘nations’ and their consular representatives in an Ottoman port city, this article contributes to understanding the power of space in early modern Mediterranean politics. First, it analyses the interplay between the more institutionalized and corporate political practices typical of early modern Europe (embodied in the office of the ‘national’ consulate) and the more informal and flexible political practices of the Ottoman empire. Second, it situates key elements of this diplomatic controversy within a particular, clearly delineated semi-public space: Acre's Khan al-Ifrānj, a residential warehouse exclusively used by European merchants.

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海滨：奥斯曼帝国港口政治和阿卡可汗 （1696–1702）


本文使用最近发现的私人商人档案（意大利佛罗伦萨的 Archivio Adami-Lami），重建了阿卡领事争议，这是一场关于任命托斯卡纳商人弗朗切斯科·阿达米 （Francesco Adami） 为奥斯曼帝国阿卡港第一任英国副领事的外交争议。通过微观空间案例研究，记录欧洲“国家”与其领事代表在奥斯曼港口城市中新出现的竞争，本文有助于理解空间在早期现代地中海政治中的力量。首先，它分析了近代早期欧洲典型的更制度化和更公司化的政治实践（体现在“国家”领事馆办公室）与奥斯曼帝国更非正式和灵活的政治实践之间的相互作用。其次，它将这场外交争论的关键要素置于一个特定的、明确划定的半公共空间内：阿卡的 Khan al-Ifrānj，一个专门供欧洲商人使用的住宅仓库。