num_pages: 186
description: This book provides the first comprehensive history of manufacturing in the Ottoman Empire and its Turkish successor state. As the Ottoman Empire evolved manufacturing underwent an unusual trajectory. Expansion in the sixteenth century gave way to transformation and adaptation after the Industrial Revolution. Then in the earlier part of the twentieth century modern Turkey's attempt at state-led industrialization became a model for many developing countries.Suraiya Faroqhi Mehmet Gen Donald Quataert and aglar Keyder experts on different phases of the manufacturing trajectory provide here exceptional case studies of manufacturing activities in their social and political contexts integrating first-hand research with surveys of the literature. This work offers rich material for historians economists and other social scientists including those interested in the origins of underdevelopment and development in the contemporary world.
language: None
title: Manufacturing in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey, 1500-1950
publisher: State University of New York Press