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).

• AcknowledgementsList of Illustrations and TablesContributors1 An Overview of Economic Life in Ottoman AnatoliaEbru Boyar and Kate Fleet2 Agricultural Production in Central Anatolia in the Classical Ottoman Period: an Investigation into the Sancaks of Aksaray, Ankara, Bozok and ÇankırıMehmet Öz3 The Economic Geography of Ottoman Anatolia: People, Places, and Political Economy around 1530Metin Coşgel and Sadullah Yıldırım4 Turkish-Genoese Trade in Northern Anatolia c. 1300–1461Kate Fleet5 Production and Trade of Cotton in Ottoman Western Anatolia c. 1700–1914Elena Frangakis-Syrett6 Working, Marketing and Consuming Ottoman Copper – with a Special Emphasis on Female InvolvementSuraiya Faroqhi7 The Cihanbeyli and the Sheep Trade: from Provisionism and Semi-Nomadism to Liberal Economy and SedentarisationYonca Köksal and Mehmet Polatel8 The Draw of the Lottery: Piyango, Profit and Politics in Early Twentieth-Century İzmirEbru Boyar9 The Fabric of Nizam: Uncertainty and the Activation of Economic Norms in Nineteenth-Century Provincial ContextsMarc AymesBibliographyIndex

‘This volume compellingly demonstrates the capaciousness of Ottoman economic history today. The contributions it contains enrich our understanding of a field of enquiry where so much remains to be done.’Caroline Finkel in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 85, Issue 1, February 2022, pp. 125-127.DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0041977X22000362