Manufacturing in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey, 1500-1950
By: edited by Donald Quataert.
Contributors: Quataert, Donald, 1941-
Series: SUNY series in the social and economic history of the Middle East
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Albany, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 175
Subjects: Manufacturing industries -- Turkey -- History.; Turkey -- Economic conditions.; Turkey -- History -- Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918.
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 Genc, Donald Quataert, and Caglar 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.