Consumption studies and the history of the Ottoman Empire, 1550-1922 : an introduction / edited by Donald Quataert. [electronic resource]

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Quataert, Donald, 1941-2011.

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 Consumption studies and the history of the Ottoman Empire, 1550-1922

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Consumption (Economics)--Turkey--History.

Consumption (Economics).

Consumption (Economics)--History--Turkey.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 358 p. ) ill. ;

Place of Publication:

Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, c2000.

Language Note:

English

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.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-351) and index.

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

1-4384-1662-8

0-585-36367-6