This volume examines the monetary history of a large empire located at the crossroads of intercontinental trade from the fourteenth century until the end of World War I. It covers all regions of the empire from the Balkans through Anatolia, Syria, Egypt and the Gulf to the Maghrib. The implications of monetary developments for social and political history are also discussed throughout the volume. This is an important and pathbreaking book by one of the most distinguished economic historians in the field.
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"Sevket Pamuk...has written an excellent survey of the coinage and economic history of the Ottoman Empire from the reign of Mehmed II...to 1924. It should have wide appeal to numismatists, historians, and students of economics...This is an important book, one that is highly recommended to all who are interested in the monetary history of the Ottoman Empire." James E. Seaver, History
"For Ottoman economic historians, this book provided the brightest fireworks of the year 2000. Pamuk has published the first chronologically and spatially comprehensive history of the Ottoman monetary system, with complete time series for the carious coin types. He has also contributed significantly to many debates in economic history...unite in hailing this book as the start of a new era in the study of Ottoman economic history." Journal of Interdisciplinary History
"...a well-structured, easy-to-read reference work, an excellent summary of the available scholarship that, one hopes, will generate new research in the Ottoman archives. It should be a recommended reading for all students interested in the economic history of the Middle East, the Mediterranean, and the Balkans during the Ottoman period." Middle East Studies Association Bulletin
"The book is bound to become the standard reference on Ottoman monetary policy as well as a key source of data and insight into Ottoman economic history in general...well organized and enjoyable to read. Written in an unpretentious style using minimal academic jargon, it should be accessible to a wide range of readers beyond Ottomanists and general economic historians." International Journal of Turkish Studies
"The book synthesizes a huge amount of previous scholarship and should remain the foundational text for the subject for the forseeable future." Religious Studies Review
"This is a splendid work of synthesis, making use of decades of scholarship in economic and monetary history." The Historian
"The book's complex approach to the problems under study together with its comprehensible and remarkably readable style makes it accesible to a wide audience of historians, economists and other social scientists. With its numerous data and innovative interpretations, as well as the construction of time series for the standards of the different Ottoman currencies, this excellent study is indeispensable to all future research in Ottoman economic history." Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society
"[Pamuk's] probing analysis of monetary factors throws new light on the development of the Empire, not least in revealing the strengths and not simply the weaknesses of the Ottoman administration and economic policy. The work is a major contribution to the literature and should be essential reading, both for economic historians concerned with the Ottoman Empire and for historians interested in the wider relations of the Empire with Europe and the Orient." Business History Review
"For Ottoman economic historians, this book provided the brightest fireworks of the year 2000. Pamuk has published the first chronologically and spatially comprehensive history of the Ottoman monetary system, with complete time series for the carious coin types. He has also contributed significantly to many debates in economic history...unite in hailing this book as the start of a new era in the study of Ottoman economic history." Journal of Interdisciplinary History
"...a well-structured, easy-to-read reference work, an excellent summary of the available scholarship that, one hopes, will generate new research in the Ottoman archives. It should be a recommended reading for all students interested in the economic history of the Middle East, the Mediterranean, and the Balkans during the Ottoman period." Middle East Studies Association Bulletin
"The book is bound to become the standard reference on Ottoman monetary policy as well as a key source of data and insight into Ottoman economic history in general...well organized and enjoyable to read. Written in an unpretentious style using minimal academic jargon, it should be accessible to a wide range of readers beyond Ottomanists and general economic historians." International Journal of Turkish Studies
"The book synthesizes a huge amount of previous scholarship and should remain the foundational text for the subject for the forseeable future." Religious Studies Review
"This is a splendid work of synthesis, making use of decades of scholarship in economic and monetary history." The Historian
"The book's complex approach to the problems under study together with its comprehensible and remarkably readable style makes it accesible to a wide audience of historians, economists and other social scientists. With its numerous data and innovative interpretations, as well as the construction of time series for the standards of the different Ottoman currencies, this excellent study is indeispensable to all future research in Ottoman economic history." Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society
"[Pamuk's] probing analysis of monetary factors throws new light on the development of the Empire, not least in revealing the strengths and not simply the weaknesses of the Ottoman administration and economic policy. The work is a major contribution to the literature and should be essential reading, both for economic historians concerned with the Ottoman Empire and for historians interested in the wider relations of the Empire with Europe and the Orient." Business History Review
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This volume examines the monetary history of a large empire located at the crossroads of intercontinental trade from the fourteenth century until the end of World War I. It covers all regions of the empire from the Balkans through Anatolia, Syria, Egypt and the Gulf to the Maghrib. The implications of monetary developments for social and political history are also discussed throughout the volume. This is an important and pathbreaking book by one of the most distinguished economic historians in the field.
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Wealth of information on an interesting subject,
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This review is from: A Monetary History of the Ottoman Empire (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization) (Hardcover)
I just read Pamuk's book, it was my first written by him. I am a serious coin collector (Balkans) and this book was able to give me a lot of information I needed. Ottoman Empire has ruled Balkans for hundreds of years and there is so much influence in economic terms that sometimes it is very difficult to weed out the reasons why something happened. This book is excellent at pointing at right sources and further reading. It is very readable once you decide to leave out all the footnotes until the end. But something like this is expected from a historic scientific book as opposed to a historic novel, I guess. Nevertheless, if one combines this book with classics by Album and Schaendlinger, one can get a very good picture of the subject at hand. Apart from sometimes tediuos readablity, it is an excellent book. If it had more story-telling oriented text in it, it would have been even better for me, but this is a very personal matter, I guess. Highly recommended!
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Money is usually defined by economists in terms of its functions, most prominently as a means of exchange, but also as a means of payment, a unit of account and a store of value. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
cash vaktfs, para tarihi, old akçes, gold sultani, silver akçe, standard akçe, million kuru, ilgili belgeler, million akçes, specie content, new kuru, larger silver coins, one akçe, major debasement, raising fiscal revenue, numismatic catalogues, bir deneme, lion thaler, tereke defterleri, gold lira, mint activity, silver shortages, active mints, foreign coinage, monetary traditions Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Ottoman Empire, Price Revolution, Cambridge University Press, Near East, New York, Oxford University Press, Osmanische Numismatik, The Journal, World War, Middle Ages, Princeton University Press, Turkish Numismatic Society, Black Sea, Imperial Ottoman Bank, Indian Ocean, Bir Asirlik Osmanli Para Tarihi, Türk Tarih Kurumu, Old World, Muhammed Ali, Standard Catalog, Carolina Academic Press, The Levantine Coinage, Harvard University Press, Les Actes des Premiers Sultans, The Numismatic Circular New!
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Money is usually defined by economists in terms of its functions, most prominently as a means of exchange, but also as a means of payment, a unit of account and a store of value. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
cash vaktfs, para tarihi, old akçes, gold sultani, silver akçe, standard akçe, million kuru, ilgili belgeler, million akçes, specie content, new kuru, larger silver coins, one akçe, major debasement, raising fiscal revenue, numismatic catalogues, bir deneme, lion thaler, tereke defterleri, gold lira, mint activity, silver shortages, active mints, foreign coinage, monetary traditions Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Ottoman Empire, Price Revolution, Cambridge University Press, Near East, New York, Oxford University Press, Osmanische Numismatik, The Journal, World War, Middle Ages, Princeton University Press, Turkish Numismatic Society, Black Sea, Imperial Ottoman Bank, Indian Ocean, Bir Asirlik Osmanli Para Tarihi, Türk Tarih Kurumu, Old World, Muhammed Ali, Standard Catalog, Carolina Academic Press, The Levantine Coinage, Harvard University Press, Les Actes des Premiers Sultans, The Numismatic Circular New!
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- Precious Metals in the Later Medieval and Early Modern Worlds by John F. Richards on 15 pages
- Studies in the Economic History of the Middle East (School of Oriental & African S) by M. A. Cook on 11 pages
- Money and its Use in Medieval Europe by Peter Spufford on 7 pages
- A Checklist of Islamic Coins by Stephen Album on 6 pages
- Monetary Regimes in Transition (Studies in Macroeconomic History) by Michael D. Bordo on 6 pages
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- Slaves of the Shah: New Elites of Safavid Iran by Sussan Babaie in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Turks in World History by Carter Vaughn Findley in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Cambridge History of Turkey: Volume 3, The Later Ottoman Empire, 1603-1839 (v. 3) by Suraiya N. Faroqhi on page 118, page 306, and Back Matter
- Money, Land and Trade: An Economic History of the Muslim Mediterranean (Islamic Mediterranean) by Nelly Hanna on page 200, and page 203
- The Economics of World War I by Stephen Broadberry on page 135
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