Aimilia Themopoulou

Associate Professor

athemop[at]turkmas.uoa[dot]gr

3 hours per week

Course Objectives

The aim of the course is the study of principal economic sectors of the Ottoman state from the 19^th century until the beginning of the 20^th century.

Course Structure

This course examines the principal economic sectors of the Ottoman Empire. Special emphasis is on:

• trade and the important developments of Ottoman-European relations in the 19^th century;

• trade with Austria, Great Britain, France and the South-Eastern European regions;

• the influence of the 1838 Treaty of Trade between Great Britain and the Ottoman Empire on the Western economic penetration into the Ottoman market;

• the influence of the international political and economic conjuncture, Crimean War (1853-1856) in the evolution of the Ottoman economy;

• the transformation of land ownership by the application of private property and the Western economic penetration in the important urban centers of the Ottoman Empire, Constantinople, Smyrna and Thessaloniki;

• the social transformations observed in port cities;

• the influence of Western sociability;

• the attempts towards urbanisation by restructuring the urban space of the port cities.

Assessment

Written assignment (25% of the total grade), final written examination (75% of the total grade).

Bibliography

Basic

Halili Inalcik – Donald Quateart (επιμ.) Οικονομική και Κοινωνική ιστορία της Οθωμανικής Αυτοκρατορίας Τόμος Α: 1300-1600, Εκδόσεις Αλεξάνδρεια, Αθήνα 2008 σελ . 469.

Indicative

Bacque Grammont J., L., - Dumont Paul (eds.) Economies et Sociétés dans l’Empire Ottoman (Fin du XVIIIe-Début XXe siècles), Paris, 1983.

Bacque Grammont J., L., - Dumont Paul (eds.) Contributions à l’histoire économique et sociale de l’Empire Ottoman, Paris, 1983.

Dumont Paul- Georgeon Francois (eds.) Villes Ottomanes à la fin de l’Empire, L’Harmattan, Paris, 1992.

Dumont Paul- Georgeon Francois (eds.) Vivre dans l’Empire Ottoman Sociabilités et relations intercommunautaires (XVIIIe – XXe siècles, L’Harmattan 1997.

Duben A., Behar J., Marriage, family and fertility 1880-1940, Cambridge University Press Cambridge, 1991.

Eldem Edhem, French Trade in Istanbul in the eighteenth Century, I.J. Brill, Leiden, 1999.

Eldem Edhem-Goffman - Daniel-Masters Bruce (eds), The Ottoman City between East and West: Aleppo Izmir and Istanbul, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1999.

Çelik Zeynep, The remaking of Istanbul, Portrait of an Ottoman city in the Nineteenth Century, Seattle- London, 1985.

Faroqhi Suraiya, Towns and townsmen of Ottoman Anatolia, trade, crafts, and food production in urban setting 1520-1550, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge,1984.

Findley Carter, Bureaucratic Reform in the Ottoman Empire. The Sublime Porte 1789-1922, Princeton, 1980.

Frangakis-Syrett Elena, The commerce of Smyrna in the Eighteenth Century (1700-1820), Centre for Asia Minor Studies, Athens 1992.

Goffmann Daniel, Izmir and the Levantine World, 1550-1650, Seattle University of Washington Press, 1990.

Göçek Fatma Müge, Rise of the Bourgoisie demise of the Empire. Ottoman Westernization and social change, Oxford University Press, 1996.

Inalcık Halil, An economic and social history of the Ottoman Empire, 1000-1600, vol. 1 Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Inalcık Halil-Faroqhi S.,-MacGowan B.,-Quateart D.,-Pamuk S., An economic and social history of the Ottoman Empire, 1600- 1914, vol. 2, Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Inalcık Halil, Essays in Ottoman History, Istanbul. 1998.

Issawi Charles, The economic history of Turkey 1800-1914, Chicago, 1980.

Islamoglu-Inan Huri (ed.) The Ottoman State and the World Economy, Cambridge, Paris, 1987

Issawi Charles, The economic history of Turkey 1800-1914, Chicago, 1980.

Islamoğlu - Inan Huricihan, State and peasant in the Ottoman Empire, Agrarian power relations and regioanal economic development in Ottoman Anatolia during the Sixteenth Century, Leiden, 1994.

Kasaba Reşat, Osmanlı İmparatorluğu ve dünya ekonomisi, Istanbul, 1993.

Kunt Ibrahim Metin (μετ. Στέφανος Παπαγεωργίου) Οι υπηρέτες του Σουλτάνου Ο μετασχηματισμός της επαρχιακής διακυβέρνησης 1550-1650, Αθήνα, 2001.

Mac Gowan Bruce, Economic life in the Ottoman Empire. Taxation, trade, and struggle for Land 1600-1800, Cambridge University Press-Maison des Sciences de l’Homme Cambridge, Paris, 1981.

Μantran Robert, Istanbul dans la seconde moitié du XVIIe siècle, Paris, 1962

Mουταφτσίεβα Βέρα, (μετ. Ουρανία Αστρινάκη –Ευαγγελία Μπαλτά), Αγροτικές σχέσεις στην Οθωμανική αυτοκρατορία (15^ος- 16^ος αι.) Eκδόσεις Πορεία, Αθήνα 1990.

Pamuk Sevket, The Ottoman Empire and European Capitalism, 1820-1913, Cambridge, University Press, Cambridge, 1984.

Panzac Daniel, Les villes dans l’Empire Ottoman: Activités et sociétés, Editions du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique v1, Paris, 1991.

Quateart Donald, Social desintegration and popular resistance in the Ottoman Empire, 1882-1908, New York University Press, New York 1983.

Quateart Donald, Ottoman Manufacturing in the age of the Industrial Revolution, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1993.

Raymond André, Artisans et commerçants au Caire au XVIIIe siècle, v. 2. Damas, 1973-1974.

Toprak Zafer, Türkiye’de ekonomi ve toplum (1908-1950) Milli Iktisat – Milli Burjuvazi Tarih Vakfi Yurt Yayınları, Istanbul 1995.