The Ottoman Empire and the World-Economy

New perspectives on the Ottoman Empire, challenging Western stereotypes.

Huri Islamogu-Inan (Edited by)

9780521526074, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 7 June 2004

496 pages
23 x 15.5 x 3.8 cm, 0.72 kg

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.

List of illustrations
List of tables
Acknowledgements
Introduction: 'oriental despotism' in world-system perspective Huri Islamoglu-Inan
Part I. Theoretical Approaches: 1. Late-eighteenth - early-nineteenth-century Egypt: merchant capitalism or modern capitalism? Peter Gran
2. Agenda for Ottoman history Huri Islamoglu and Çaglar Keyder
3. State and economy in the Ottoman Empire Ilkay Sunar
4. The incorporation of the Ottoman Empire into the world-economy Immanuel Wallerstein, 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 century Huri Islamoglu-Inan
6. The cotton famine and its effects on the Ottoman Empire Orhan Kurmus
7. The Middle Danube cul-de-sac Bruce McGowan
8. Commodity production for world-markets and relations of production in Ottoman agriculture, 1840–1913 Sevket Pamuk
9. Primitive accumulation in Egypt, 1798–1882 Alan R. Richards
Part III. Industry and Labour: 10. Price history and the Bursa silk industry: a study in Ottoman industrial decline, 1550–1650 Murat Çizakça
11. Notes on the production of cotton and cotton cloth in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Anatolia Suraiya Faroqhi
12. The silk-reeling industry of Mount Lebanon, 1840–1914: a study of the possibilities and limitations of factory production in the periphery Roger Owen
13. The silk industry of Bursa, 1880–1914 Donald Quataert
14. A provisional report concerning the impact of European capital on Ottoman port workers, 1880–1909 Donald Quataert
Part IV. Trade and Markets: 15. The Venetian presence in the Ottoman Empire, 1600–30 Suraiya Faroqhi
16. A study of the feasibility of using eighteenth-century Ottoman financial records as an indicator of economic activity Mehmet Genç
17. When and how British cotton goods invaded the Levant markets Halil Inalcik
Notes
Index.

Subject Areas: Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700 [HBLH], European history [HBJD]