Table of Contents

1. Introduction; 2. Long-term fluctuations in Ottoman foreign trade 1830–1913; 3. Ottoman terms of trade against industrialised countries 1854–1913; 4. Foreign capital in the Ottoman Empire, 1854–1913; 5. Commodity production for world markets and relations of production in agriculture 1840–1913; 6. The decline and resistance of Ottoman cotton textiles 1820–1913; 7. The Ottoman case in comparative perspective; Appendices; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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Originally published in 1987, this book examines the consequences of the nineteenth-century economic penetration of Europe into the Ottoman Empire.