Making a Living in the Ottoman Lands, 1480 to 1820 / / Suraiya Faroqhi.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2013
• VerfasserIn: Faroqhi, Suraiya,
• Place / Publishing House: Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2010]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Analecta Isisiana: Ottoman and Turkish Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (319 p.)

This collection of essays represents a sample of Suraiya Faroqhi’s groundbreaking work into Ottoman social and economic history. In it, she looks at individuals and structures in the Ottoman provinces.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- THE ANATOLIAN TOWN AND ITS PLACE WITHIN THE ADMINISTRATIVE STRUCTURE OF THE OTTOMAN STATE (1550-1590) -- TOWNS, AGRICULTURE AND THE STATE IN SIXTEENTH-CENTURY OITOMAN ANATOLIA -- THE FIELDGLASS AND THE MAGNIFYING LENS: STUDIES OF OTTOMAN CRAFTS AND CRAFTSMEN -- OTTOMAN GUILDS IN THE LATE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY: THE BURSA CASE -- BURSA AT THE CROSSROADS: IRANIAN SILK, EUROPEAN COMPETITION AND THE LOCAL ECONOMY 1470-1700 -- LONG-TERM CHANGE AND THE OTTOMAN CONSTRUCTION SITE: A STUDY OF BUILDERS' WAGES AND IRON PRICES -- MERCHANT NETWORKS AND OTTOMAN CRAFT PRODUCTION -- THE BUSINESS OF TRADE: BURSA MERCHANTS IN THE 1480s -- TRADERS AND CUSTOMS OFFICIALS IN 1660s ISKENDERUN -- RED SEA TRADE AND COMMUNICATIONS AS OBSERVED BY EVLIYA ÇELEBI (1671-72) -- AGRICULTURAL CRISIS AND THE ART OF FLUTE-PLAYING: THE WORLDLY AFFAIRS OF THE MEVLEVÎ DERVISHES (1595-1652) -- A GREAT FOUNDATION IN DIFFICULTIES: OR SOME EVIDENCE ON ECONOMIC CONTRACTION IN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE OF THE MID SEVENTEENTH CENTURY -- WEALTH AND POWER IN THE LAND OF OLIVES: ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL ACTIVITIES OF MÜRIDZADE HACI MEHMED AGHA, NOTABLE OF EDREMIT -- BIBLIOGRAPHY