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Summary
Summary
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 with conventional studies of the Ottoman Empire, based on this European world-view, that focus on political military, and cultural institutions. Following a series of general theoretical discussions about Ottoman social structure, the contributors turn to case studies directed either to theoretical problems or to 'facts' which suggest new avenues of conceptualisation.
Table of Contents
| List of illustrations |
| List of tables |
| Acknowledgements |
| Introduction: +oriental despotism+ in world-system perspectiveHuri Islamoglu-Inan |
| Part I Theoretical Approaches |
| 1 Late-eighteenth - early-nineteenth-century Egypt: merchant capitalism or modern capitalism?Peter Gran |
| 2 Agenda for Ottoman historyHuri Islamoglu and aglar Keyder |
| 3 State and economy in the Ottoman EmpireIlkay Sunar |
| 4 The incorporation of the Ottoman Empire into the world-economy ImmanuelWallerstein and Hale Decdeli and Resat Kasaba |
| 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 centuryHuri Islamoglu-Inan |
| 6 The cotton famine and its effects on the Ottoman EmpireOrhan Kurmus |
| 7 The Middle Danube cul-de-sacBruce McGowan |
| 8 Commodity production for world-markets and relations of production in Ottoman agriculture, 1840+1913Sevket Pamuk |
| 9 Primitive accumulation in Egypt, 1798+1882Alan R. Richards |
| Part III Industry and Labour |
| 10 Price history and the Bursa silk industry: a study in Ottoman industrial decline, 1550+1650Murat izakta |
| 11 Notes on the production of cotton and cotton cloth in sixteenth- and seventeenth-centuryAnatolia Suraiya Faroqhi |
| 12 The silk-reeling industry of Mount Lebanon, 1840+1914: a study of the possibilities and limitations of factory production in the peripheryRoger Owen |
| 13 The silk industry of Bursa, 1880+1914Donald Quataert |
| 14 A provisional report concerning the impact of European capital on Ottoman port workers, 1880+1909Donald Quataert |
| Part IV Trade and Markets |
| 15 The Venetian presence in the Ottoman Empire, 1600+30Suraiya Faroqhi |
| 16 A study of the feasibility of using eighteenth-century Ottoman financial records as an indicator of economic activityMehmet Gent |
| 17 When and how British cotton goods invaded the Levant marketsHalil Inalcik |
| Notes |
| Index |
