Trade and money : the Ottoman economy in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries

CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS LIST OF APPENDICES INTRODUCTION SECTION I: MONEY AND TRADE THE OTTOMAN ECONOMY AND IZMIR IN PERSPECTIVE MONETARY SHORTAGE AND THE OTTOMAN ECONOMY: LATE SEVENTEENTH TO THE LATE EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES THE OTTOMAN MONETARY SYSTEM IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE EIGHTEENTH AND IN THE EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURIES: A VIEW FROM THE PROVINCES THE BALANCE OF TRADE AND THE BALANCE OF PAYMENTS BETWEEN IZMIR AND MARSEILLES, 1700- 1789 SECTION II: THE OTTOMAN MARITIME WORLD THE COASTAL TRADE OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE, FROM THE MID-EIGHTEENTH TO THE EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURIES ÌZMÌR AND THE OTTOMAN MARITIME WORLD OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY SECTION III: ÌZMÌR, THE EMPIRE'S PREMIER PORT TRADE BETWEEN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE AND WESTERN EUROPE: THE CASE OF IZMIR IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY THE TRADE OF COTTON AND CLOTH IN IZMIR: FROM THE SECOND HALF OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY TO THE EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY THE PORT OF PATRAS IN THE SECOND OTTOMAN PERIOD c. 1700-1830 SECTION IV: TRADE AND MONETARY PRACTICES NETWORKS OF FRIENDSHIP, NETWORKS OF KINSHIP: EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LEVANT MERCHANTS THE ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES OF OTTOMAN AND WESTERN COMMUNITIES IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ÌZMÌR COMMERCIAL PRACTICES AND COMPETITION IN THE LEVANT: THE BRITISH AND THE DUTCH IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ÌZMÌR THE ARMENIAN, GREEK AND JEWISH COMMUNITIES OF SMYRNA IN THE 18th CENTURY (1690-1820) GREEK MERCANTILE ACTIVITIES IN THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN, 1780-1820 SECTION V. EPILOGUE: THE ECONOMY OF IZMIR, 18TH TO EARLY 20TH CENTURIES LES RÉSEAUX COMMERCIAUX ET L'INTÉGRATION AU MARCHÉ MONDIAL DE LA MÉDITERRANÉE ORIENTALE, UN APERÇU HISTORIQUE 18. YÜZYILDAN 20. YÜZYILIN BA§LARINA KADAR ÍZMlR EKONOMÍSlNE BÍR BAKIŞ APPENDIX