Balkan Economic History, 1550-1950: From Imperial Borderlands to Developing Nations (Theories of Contemporary Culture)

western Economic Historians Have Traditionally Concentrated On The Success Stories Of Major Developed Economies, While Development Economists Have Given Most Of Their Attnetion To The Problems Of The Third World. The Authors Of This Pioneering Work Study A Part Of Europe Neglected By Both Approaches. Modernizing Patterns In Balkan Economic History Are Traced From The Sixteenth Century (when The Territory Was Shared By Ottoman And Habsburg Empires), Through The Nineteenth Century (when They Emerged As Independent States), To The End Of World War Ii And Its Aftermath. Despite Present Differences In Economic Systems — Greece's Private Market Economy, Yugoslavia's Planned Market Economy, And The Centrally Planned Economies Of Romania, Bulgaria, And Albania — The Authors Find That Shared Origins And Common Subsequent Experiences Are Ample Justifications For Treating The Area As An Economic Unit. Balkan Economic History, 1550-1950 Will Be A Major Case Study For Development Economists And Will Provide Historians With The First Analytical And Statistical Study To Survey The Entire Region From The Start Of The Early Modern Period. Frontmatter Acknowledgments (page xvii) Introduction: Issues in Balkan Economic History (page 1) Part I. New Markets in the Old Empires, from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Centuries - John R. Lampe 1. The Economic Legacy of Ottoman Domination (page 21) 2. The Economic Legacy of Habsburg Domination (page 50) 3. The Romanian Principalities between Three Empires, 1711-1859 (page 80) 4. The Serbian National Economy and Habsburg Hegemony, 1815-1878 (page 109) 5. The Bulgarian Lands in a Declining Ottoman Economy (page 133) Part II. Modernization in the New Nation-States, 1860-1914 - John R. Lampe 6. The Export Boom and Peasant Agriculture (page 159) 7. Financial Consequences of Political Independence (page 202) 8. Industrial Stirrings and the Sources of Growth (page 237) 9. Economic Development in the Imperial Borderlands to 1914 (page 278) Part III. War and Economic Development, 1912-1950 - Marvin R. Jackson and John R. Lampe 10. The Disruption of Prewar Patterns: Agriculture and Aggregate Growth (page 329) 11. The Disruption of Prewar Patterns: Finance and Industry (page 376) 12. Structural Change and the State Sector during the Depression (page 434) 13. The Economic Consequences of the Second World War (page 520) Conclusion: Postwar Industrialization in Historical Perspective (page 576) Notes (page 601) Bibliography (page 688) Index (page 715)