Yonca Köksal Özyaşar and Can Nacar, Anatolian Livestock Trade in the Late Ottoman Empire. Leiden: Leiden University Press, 2024. 220 pages.
Journal: New Perspectives on Turkey
Year: 2025

The literature on the food provisioning of stanbul and other major Ottoman cities has only marginally addressed Anatolia's role in meat supplies.Even less attention has been paid to the period after the 1840s.Anatolian Livestock Trade in the Late Ottoman Empire aims to fill this gap.By bringing together the events, places, and human and non-human actors with a longue-dure perspective, the book tells a comprehensive story about the formation and functioning of livestock trade networks, emphasizin