The Ottoman Empire and the World Economy

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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 Caglar 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 Cizakca 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 Genc 17. When and how British cotton goods invaded the Levant markets Halil Inalcik Notes Index.