Everyday Life and Consumer Culture in 18th-Century Damascus

[...] means of transport (horses, mules, donkeys, camels) also set limits to the quantity of foodstuffs that could be shipped over great distances. The third observation is that the book's conclusion is far too short and does not develop some of the author's more arresting points, in particular his argument that Damascenes felt a certain anxiety about change in their material objects and habits (such as the triumph of coffee and tobacco as consumer items).