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Title Consumption studies and the history of the Ottoman Empire, 1550-1922 : an introduction / edited by Donald Quataert
Published Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2000

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 358 pages) : illustrations
Series SUNY series in the social and economic history of the Middle East
SUNY series in the social and economic history of the Middle East.
Contents Introduction / Donald Quataert -- Research on the history of Ottoman consumption : A preliminary exploration of sources and models / Suraiya Faroqhi -- Toward an isolario of the Ottoman inheritance inventory, with special reference to Manisa (ca. 1600-1700) / Joyce Hedda Matthews -- The age of tulips : confluence and conflict in early modern consumer culture (1550-1730) / Ariel Salzmann -- Aspects of the Ottoman elite's food consumption : looking for "staples," "luxuries," and "delicacies" in a changing century / Tülay Artan -- The transition to mass fashion system dress in the later Ottoman Empire / Charlotte Jirousek -- Cheap and easy : the creation of consumer culture in late Ottoman society / Elizabeth B. Frierson -- Personal, public, and political (re)constructions : photographs and consumption / Nancy Micklewright -- Goods in the mahalle : distributional encounters in eighteenth-century Istanbul / Madeline C. Zilfi
Summary "Tracing a host of topics relating to consumption, this book describes and analyzes the rise of mass fashion dress, changing fashions in clothing, the transcultural significance of tulip consumption, the rise of print advertising, the use of food as a marker of elite status, and the emergence of photographs as a consumer commodity. The emphasis on consumption rather than production offers new perspectives on the Ottoman and Middle East past, and by extension that of East and Southeast Asia as well as Africa. Its findings also invite comparisons with those in U.S. and European consumption history. Also included are chapters that offer guidance in the use of archival sources for research in consumption history and a methodological overview of the utility of consumption studies for Ottoman and Middle East history."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-351) and index
Notes English
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Subject Consumption (Economics) -- Turkey -- History
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Economic Conditions.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- Macroeconomics.
Consumption (Economics)
Turkey
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Quataert, Donald, 1941-2011.
ISBN 0585363676
9780585363677