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Informationen zum Autor Professor Roger Owen teaches modern Middle East economic history at Harvard University. Klappentext Examines the growth and transformation of the Middle East economy during the 19th and early 20th centuries. The text looks at how the region's economic structures were fundamentally altered by the growing impact of European trade and finance, and by the internal reforms of the rulers of Egypt. Vorwort Examines the growth and transformation of the Middle East economy during the 19th and early 20th centuries. The text looks at how the region's economic structures were fundamentally altered by the growing impact of European trade and finance, and by the internal reforms of the rulers of Egypt. Zusammenfassung Examines the growth and transformation of the Middle East economy during the 19th and early 20th centuries. The text looks at how the region's economic structures were fundamentally altered by the growing impact of European trade and finance, and by the internal reforms of the rulers of Egypt. Inhaltsverzeichnis The Middle East economy in 1800; the economic consequences of the age of reforms, 1800-1850; the expansion of trade with Europe, 1800-1850; The Ottoman road to bankruptcy and the Anatolian economy, 1850-1881; Egypt, 1850-1882 - from foreign borrowing to bankruptcy and occupation; the provinces of Greater syria, 1850-1880 - the economic and social tnesions of the 1850s and their consequences; the Iraqi provinces, 1850-1880; Anatolia and Istanbul, 1881-1914; the Egyptian economy, 1882-19114; Mount Lebanon, Syria and Palestine, 1880-1914; the Iraqi provinces, 1880-1914.