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Title: | Tripoli in the mid eighteenth century: a guidebook to the city 1767 |
Author: | Pennell, Richard |
Year: | 1982 |
Periodical: | Revue d'histoire maghrébine |
Volume: | 9 |
Issue: | 25-26 |
Pages: | 91-121 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Great Britain Libya |
Subjects: | urban society diplomats history 1767 |
Abstract: | The British consuls in Tripoli not only were surrounded by a local political system of some complexity but also had a variety of official functions to perform. In addition, since Tripoli was hardly one of the main trading centres of North Africa, they were faced with the everyday problem of finding the necessities of life. During the 1760s the post of British Consul-General in Tripoli changed hands several times. This necessarily limited for any of these functionaries the chance to gain vital knowledge. It was Consul Archibald Campbell Eraser's Chancellor and Vice-Consul Anthony Knecht who wrote out in 1767 a guide through the maze of difficulties which surrounded the functioning of consulship. The little book is one of the few consistent accounts of Tripoli at a time of decline. This article, after an historical introduction, presents the text of the book. Bibliogr., notes. |