An Economic and Social History of the Ottoman Empire, 1300-1914Halil İnalcık, Donald Quataert The Ottoman Empire was one of the major empires of modern times, covering an area extending from the borderlands of Hungary to the North African coastal areas. This book provides a richly detailed account of its social and economic history, from its origins around 1300 to the eve of its destruction during World War I. In the four chronological sections, each by a leading authority, developments in population, trade, transport, manufacturing, land tenure and the economy are charted and analysed; an appendix examines Ottoman monetary history over the entire period. The breadth of its range and the fullness of its coverage make this an essential book for understanding contemporary developments in both the Middle East and the post-Soviet Balkan world. |
Contents
General introduction | 1 |
ECONOMY | 9 |
A THE ECONOMIC MIND | 44 |
The state treasury and budgets | 77 |
STATE LAND AND PEASANT | 103 |
Land possession outside the miri system | 120 |
Land surveying | 132 |
the organization of Ottoman rural | 143 |
Symbols of power and legitimation | 609 |
623 | |
THE AGE OF THE AYANS | 637 |
Population and migration | 646 |
The elites and their retinues | 658 |
Peasants and pastoralists | 680 |
Merchants and craftsmen | 695 |
The state and the economy | 710 |
Settlements | 155 |
TRADE | 179 |
general conditions | 188 |
IO Bursa and the silk trade | 218 |
Dubrovnik and the Balkans | 256 |
The India trade | 315 |
Northerners in the Mediterranean | 364 |
380 | |
CRISIS AND CHANGE | 402 |
Suraiya Faroqhi Institut für Geschichte und Kultur des Nahen | 411 |
economic crisis and partial recovery | 433 |
regional interregional and international | 474 |
Finances | 531 |
The ruling elite between politics and the economy | 545 |
Social life in cities | 576 |
Trade | 724 |
743 | |
Overview of the nineteenth century | 761 |
Population | 777 |
Transportation | 798 |
Commerce | 824 |
Agriculture | 843 |
Manufacturing | 888 |
934 | |
MONEY IN THE OTTOMAN | 947 |
981 | |
List of weights and measures | 987 |
Glossary | 995 |
1003 | |
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