Donald Quataert is Professor of History and Director of the Southwest Asian and North African Program at the State University of New York at Binghamton. He is the author of Social Disintegration and Popular Resistance in the Ottoman Empire and Ottoman Manufacturing in the Age of the Industrial Revolution, and coeditor, with Richard T. Antoun, of Syria: Society, Culture, and Polity, published by SUNY Press.

• Tables 1. IntroductionDonald Quataert 2. Labor Recruitment and Control in the Ottoman Empire(Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries)Suraiya Faroqhi 3. Ottoman Industry in the Eighteenth Century: General Framework, Characteristics, and Main TrendsMebmet Genç 4. Ottoman Manufacturing in the Nineteenth CenturyDonald Quataert 5. Manufacturing in the Ottoman Empire and in Republican Turkey, ca. 1900-1950Çaglar Keyder 6. AfterwordDonald Quataert Index

"I found this book particularly interesting because it showed in a vivid, imaginative, and analytical way the internal workings of the Ottoman/Turkish economy and society, as it concerned manufacturing, and its interaction with and reaction to the West on the level not only of the state but also of the private entrepreneur." — Elena Frangakis-Syrett, Queens College, City University of New York