Making a Living in Ottoman Anatolia

Ebru Boyar, Ph.D. Cambridge University, is Professor at the Middle East Technical University, Ankara. Her publications include Ottomans, Turks and the Balkans: Empire Lost, Relations Altered (London, 2007) and A Social History of Ottoman Istanbul (Cambridge, 2010). Kate Feet, Ph.D. SOAS, London University, is Director of the Skilliter Centre for Ottoman Studies, University of Cambridge. Her publications include European and Islamic Trade in the Early Ottoman State (Cambridge, 1999) and A Social History of Ottoman Istanbul (Cambridge, 2010).

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1 An Overview of Economic Life in Ottoman Anatolia


 Ebru Boyar and Kate Fleet





2 Agricultural Production in Central Anatolia in the Classical Ottoman Period: an Investigation into the Sancaks of Aksaray, Ankara, Bozok and Çankırı


 Mehmet Öz





3 The Economic Geography of Ottoman Anatolia: People, Places, and Political Economy around 1530


 Metin Coşgel and Sadullah Yıldırım





4 Turkish-Genoese Trade in Northern Anatolia c. 1300–1461


 Kate Fleet





5 Production and Trade of Cotton in Ottoman Western Anatolia c. 1700–1914


 Elena Frangakis-Syrett





6 Working, Marketing and Consuming Ottoman Copper – with a Special Emphasis on Female Involvement


 Suraiya Faroqhi





7 The Cihanbeyli and the Sheep Trade: from Provisionism and Semi-Nomadism to Liberal Economy and Sedentarisation


 Yonca Köksal and Mehmet Polatel





8 The Draw of the Lottery: Piyango, Profit and Politics in Early Twentieth-Century İzmir


 Ebru Boyar





9 The Fabric of Nizam: Uncertainty and the Activation of Economic Norms in Nineteenth-Century Provincial Contexts


 Marc Aymes





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