The Ottoman Empire and the World-Economy (Studies in Modern Capitalism Series)
This collection of essays represents a departure from the traditional perspective, recently questioned by many scholars, from which Ottoman history is usually written. Central to the establishment of Western domination over the 'East' is the writing of its history in terms of Western hegemony, above all in the case of the Ottoman Empire, which has been characterised as static, irrational and authoritarian in contrast with the dynamic, rational, democratic West. This book contrasts sharply...
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New perspectives on the Ottoman Empire, challenging Western stereotypes.
List of illustrationsviiList of tablesviiiAcknowledgementsxiIntroduction: 'Oriental despotism' in world-system perspective1Part ITheoretical Approaches1Late-eighteenth-early-nineteenth-century Egypt: merchant capitalism or modern capitalism?272Agenda for Ottoman history423State and economy in the Ottoman Empire634The incorporation of the Ottoman Empire into the world-economy88Part IIState and Agriculture5State and peasants in the Ottoman Empire: a study of peasant economy in north-central Anatolia during the sixteenth century1016The cotton famine and its effects on the Ottoman Empire1607The Middle Danube cul-de-sac1708Commodity production for world-markets and relations of production in Ottoman agriculture, 1840-19131789Primitive accumulation in Egypt, 1798-1882203Part IIIIndustry and Labour10Price history and the Bursa silk industry: a study in Ottoman industrial decline, 1550-165024711Notes on the production of cotton and cotton cloth in sixteenth-and seventeenth-century Anatolia26212The silk-reeling industry of Mount Lebanon, 1840-1914: a study of the possibilities and limitations of factory production in the periphery27113The silk industry of Bursa, 1880-191428414A provisional report concerning the impact of European capital on Ottoman port workers, 1880-1909300Part IVTrade and Markets15The Venetian presence in the Ottoman Empire, 1600-3031116A study of the feasibility of using eighteenth-century Ottoman financial records as an indicator of economic activity34517When and how British cotton goods invaded the Levant markets374Notes384Index457
