Wealth Accumulation and Entrepreneurship in the Ottoman Empire, 18th to 20th Centuries

Maria Christina Chatziioannou is Research Director Emerita at the Institute of Historical Research/National Hellenic Research Foundation (Athens). Her interests focus on Social and Economic History (18th to 20th Centuries.) Sophia Laiou is Associate Professor of Ottoman History at Ionian University (Corfu). Her interests focus on Early Ottoman History.

Introduction Part 1: Forms of Entrepreneurship and Social Mobility 1. Aspects of Capital Accumulation in Thessaloniki of the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century: Capital Structure, Entrepreneurial Strategies, and Economic Characteristics of a Muslim Urban Elite 2. Capitalist Practices of Thessalonican Greek Merchants Around the 1820s 3. Ottoman Greek Entrepreneurs in Istanbul in the Early 1800s 4. Wealth Accumulation and Investment Methods of Sarrafs (Moneychangers) in 18th Century Ιstanbul 5. Signs of Wealth: Emerging Consumption in Early Modern Southeastern Europe Part 2: The 1820s: The Dawn of a New Era 6. Between Private Wealth and State Revenues: Was Ali Paşa of Ioannina a Rich Man? 7. Janissary Inter-Provincial Economic Practices During the 1821 Greek War of Independence 8. The Wealth Accumulated by Merchants in the 1820s: Levels, Gradations, Distributions Part 3: Tanzimat and the New Economic Horizons 9. Locality and Transnational Trade: The Role of the Ottoman Greek Merchant-Entrepreneur 10. Businesses and Investment Strategies in the Cigarette Industry of the Eastern Mediterranean, Late 19th – Early 20th Centuries 11. Motifs of Primary Accumulation in the Ottoman Empire: The Bankers of Galata and the Case of Andreas Syngros Part 4: Land Possession and Entrepreneurship 12. Capital and Wealth in the Ottoman Balkans at the Turn of the 19th Century: Some Evidence from Salonica 13. Çiftlik Holdings in Western Anatolia: The Karaosmanoğlu Family and the Baltazzi Family in the 18th–19th Centuries 14. Wealth Inequality, Çiftliks, and the Question of Agrarian Capitalism in Cyprus During the 1830s 15. Stephan Spartalian: An Armenian Entrepreneur in the Age of ‘National Economy’ of the Young Turk Period