Artisans of Empire Crafts and Craftspeople Under the Ottomans
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Om bidragsyterne
Suraiya Faroqhi is Professor of History at Bilgi University, Istanbul, and the author of The Ottoman Empire and the World Around It, Pilgrims and Sultans and Subjects of the Sultan (all published by I.B. Tauris)."'A display of unrivalled knowledge of the sources by one of the leading historians of the Ottoman Empire.' (Erik J. Zurcher, Professor of Turkish Studies at the University of Leiden) 'A real pleasure...the main line of the argument is entirely convincing. Artisans of Emipre is learned and informative, written with evident mastery of lots of empirical material.' (Marcel van der Linden, Research Director of the International Institute of Social History, University of Amsterdam)"
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Before the 1670s
Before and after 1500: how artisan organization may have emerged in the Ottoman lands.
3. Services to the state.
4. Guildsmen of Istanbul and Cairo.
5. Provincial craftspeople and merchant networks.
From the 1670s to the 1850s
6. Changes in Istanbul guilds.
7. Cairo: from military penetration of artisan guilds to the state monopolies of Mehmed Ali Pa?a.
8. The political role of craftsmen.
9. Provincial craftsmen: how guildsmen adapted to new circumstances.
After 1850
10. From 1850 to 1914: a different state, a different economy and the disappearance of the guilds.
11. Conclusion.
A note on transliteration