{"isbn_13": ["9780231134729"], "physical_format": "Hardcover", "subtitle": "Essays in Honor of Richard W. Bulliet (Published by the Middle East Institute of Columbia University)", "weight": "1.5 pounds", "languages": [{"key": "/l/eng"}], "type": {"key": "/type/edition"}, "publishers": ["Columbia University Press"], "number_of_pages": 400, "id": 12697026, "first_sentence": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "This is a brief comparative study of several trading groups in the seventeenth century and of their participation in state-building in their host societies as \"trade diaspora.\""}, "isbn_10": ["023113472X"], "publish_date": "November 30, 2004", "key": "/b/OL9420146M", "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2008-04-30 09:38:13.731961"}, "title": "Views from the Edge", "contributions": ["Neguin Yavari (Editor)", "Lawrence G. Potter (Editor)", "Jean-Marc Ran Oppenheim (Editor)"], "subjects": ["World history", "History - General History", "History: World", "Middle East", "Essays", "Islam - History", "Middle East - General", "History / Middle East", "Civilization", "Historiography", "History", "Islamic countries"], "physical_dimensions": "9 x 6.1 x 1.2 inches", "revision": 1}