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Book cover image of The Ottoman Empire and the World-Economy (Studies in Modern Capitalism Series) by Huri Islamogu-Inan

Authors: Huri Islamogu-Inan (Editor), Immanuel Wallerstein (Editor), Jacques Revel (Editor), Maurice Aymard
ISBN-13: 9780521526074, ISBN-10: 0521526078
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: October 2003
Edition: New Edition

Author Biography: Huri Islamogu-Inan

Book Synopsis

New perspectives on the Ottoman Empire, challenging Western stereotypes.

	List of illustrations	vii
	List of tables	viii
	Acknowledgements	xi
	Introduction: 'Oriental despotism' in world-system perspective	1
Part I	Theoretical Approaches
1	Late-eighteenth-early-nineteenth-century Egypt: merchant capitalism or modern capitalism?	27
2	Agenda for Ottoman history	42
3	State and economy in the Ottoman Empire	63
4	The incorporation of the Ottoman Empire into the world-economy	88
Part II	State and Agriculture
5	State and peasants in the Ottoman Empire: a study of peasant economy in north-central Anatolia during the sixteenth century	101
6	The cotton famine and its effects on the Ottoman Empire	160
7	The Middle Danube cul-de-sac	170
8	Commodity production for world-markets and relations of production in Ottoman agriculture, 1840-1913	178
9	Primitive accumulation in Egypt, 1798-1882	203
Part III	Industry and Labour
10	Price history and the Bursa silk industry: a study in Ottoman industrial decline, 1550-1650	247
11	Notes on the production of cotton and cotton cloth in sixteenth-and seventeenth-century Anatolia	262
12	The silk-reeling industry of Mount Lebanon, 1840-1914: a study of the possibilities and limitations of factory production in the periphery	271
13	The silk industry of Bursa, 1880-1914	284
14	A provisional report concerning the impact of European capital on Ottoman port workers, 1880-1909	300
Part IV	Trade and Markets
15	The Venetian presence in the Ottoman Empire, 1600-30	311
16	A study of the feasibility of using eighteenth-century Ottoman financial records as an indicator of economic activity	345
17	When and how British cotton goods invaded the Levant markets	374
	Notes	384
	Index	457