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Zusatztext In this interesting and well written book! Lapavitsas and Cakiroglu tell the unlikely story of the emergence of industrial capitalism in Ottoman Macedonia during the decades before World War I. They show how! despite the conditions of free trade! Jewish and Greek entrepreneurs made use of the existing natural resources as well as state policies to create a large industrial base in cotton spinning and wool weaving. It was not easy! however! to sustain this effort in an environment dominated by mostly small scale agriculture and in the age of rising nationalisms. There are important lessons in this insightful account also for those interested in the theoretical aspects of the rise of industrial capitalism. Informationen zum Autor Costas Lapavitsas is Professor of Economics at SOAS, University of London. Pinar Cakiroglu is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Crete.An in-depth study offering a new perspective on the economic and political development and trajectory of the late Ottoman Empire Zusammenfassung The Ottoman Empire went through rapid economic and social development in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as it approached its end. Profound changes took place in its European territories, particularly and prominently in Macedonia. In the decades before the First World War, industrial capitalism began to emerge in Ottoman Macedonia and its impact was felt across society.The port city of Salonica was at the epicentre of this transformation, led by its Jewish community. But the most remarkable site of development was found deep in provincial Macedonia, where industrial capitalism sprang from domestic sources in spite of unfavourable conditions. Ottoman Greek traders and industrialists from the region of Mount Vermion helped shape the economic trajectory of ‘Turkey in Europe’, and competed successfully against Jewish capitalists from Salonica.The story of Ottoman Macedonian capitalism was nearly forgotten in the century that followed the demise of the Empire. This book pieces it together by unearthing Ottoman archival materials combined with Greek sources and field research. It offers a fresh perspective on late Ottoman economic history and will be an invaluable resource for scholars of Ottoman, Greek and Turkish history.Published in Association with the British Institute at Ankara Inhaltsverzeichnis Ch. 1 The emergence of industrial capitalism in Ottoman Macedonia Ch. 2 Analysing Ottoman capitalism: Theoretical and empirical resources Ch. 3 Administrative mechanisms and population changes in the vilayet of Thessaloniki Ch. 4 The straightjacket of çiftlik agriculture in Macedonia Ch. 5 The commercial roots of Ottoman textile capitalism Ch 6. Private industrial capitalism in Ottoman Macedonia Ch. 7 The Ottoman state creates a framework for industrialisation Ch. 8 Ascendant industrialists, emerging working class, turbulent communities Ch. 9 Precarious capitalism...
