05087nam 2200685 a 450 991096308790332120251117115100.01-283-34208-197866133420891-139-15971-21-139-15515-60-511-15059-80-511-05269-3(CKB)111087027180708(EBL)144728(OCoLC)437072981(SSID)ssj0000205069(PQKBManifestationID)11184237(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000205069(PQKBWorkID)10190054(PQKB)11287422(MiAaPQ)EBC144728(Au-PeEL)EBL144728(CaPaEBR)ebr5007855(EXLCZ)9911108702718070819981102d2000 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrA monetary history of the Ottoman Empire /Sevket Pamuk1st ed.New York Cambridge University Press20001 online resource (334 p.)Cambridge studies in Islamic civilizationDescription based upon print version of record.0-521-44197-8 Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-269) and index.Cover; A Monetary History of the Ottoman Empire; Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization; Title; Copyright; To Yesim; Contents; List of maps, graphs, and tables; List of illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; Note on transliteration; CHAPTER 1 Introduction; Trade, money, and states in the Mediterranean basin; Ottoman economic policies; Money, economy, and the Ottoman state; A periodization; CHAPTER 2 Trade and money at the origins; Gold and Silver; East and west; Byzantine Empire and the Balkans; Early Ottoman coinage; Mints and their administration; Silver mines; Copper coinageCHAPTER 3 Interventionism and debasements as policyCentralization and interventionism; The silver famines; The debasements of Mehmed II; Motives and explanations; Towards a political economy of Ottoman debasements; CHAPTER 4 The emerging monetary system; The gold sultani: an ""international"" coin; Foreign coins; Gold-silver-copper; Bimetallism or silver monometallism?; Increasing use of money; CHAPTER 5 Credit and finance; Credit; Business partnerships; State finances and financing the state; CHAPTER 6 Money and empire; Monetary zones within the empire; The Balkans; Egypt; The shahi zoneThe Crimean akceThe Maghrib; Algeria; Tunis; Tripoli; CHAPTER 7 The Price Revolution in the Near East revisited; Competing explanations; New evidence and a review of the old; Why did prices rise in the Near East?; Long-term consequences of the Price Revolution; CHAPTER 8 Debasement and disintegration; The debasement of 1585-86: a turning point?; Fiscal crises and monetary instability; Disappearance of the akce; CHAPTER 9 In the absence of domestic currency; Debased coinage in Ottoman markets; Belated government intervention; The return of copper coinage; CHAPTER 10 The new Ottoman kurusThe Ottoman kurusEconomic expansion and fiscal stability; Fiscal troubles and depreciation of the kurus; CHAPTER 11 Linkages with the periphery; The para in Egypt; The riyal of Tunis; Algeria; Tripoli; Crimea; Convergence of currencies; CHAPTER 12 The Great Debasement; Attempts at financial centralization; Evolution of internal borrowing; The Great Debasement (1808-34); Financing the state: The Galata bankers; CHAPTER 13 From bimetallism to the ""limping gold standard""; Integration to the world economy; Bimetallism, new coinage, and paper money; Banks for lending to the stateExternal borrowingThe limping gold standard; Commercial banking; The financing of World War I; CHAPTER 14 Conclusions; APPENDIX I Excerpts from Ottoman Laws on taxation, money, mints, and mines; APPENDIX II Price indices for Istanbul, 1469-1914; APPENDIX III A note on basic economic and monetary magnitudes; Money in the Ottoman Empire; Fourteenth and fifteenth centuries; Sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; Eighteenth century; Nineteenth century; Bibliography; IndexThis volume examines the monetary history of the Ottoman empire from the fourteenth century until the end of World War I. It also discusses the implications of monetary developments for social and political history. This is an important book by one of the most distinguished economic historians in the field.Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization.Monetary policyTurkeyHistoryCoinageTurkeyHistoryTurkeyHistoryOttoman Empire, 1288-1918Monetary policyHistory.CoinageHistory.332.4/956Pamuk Şevket134174MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910963087903321Monetary history of the Ottoman Empire1317512UNINA