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Economics and Capitalism in the Ottoman Empire (Paperback)
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Economics and Capitalism in the Ottoman Empire (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Economics
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Is it possible to generate "capitalist spirit" in a society, where
cultural, economic and political conditions did not unfold into an
industrial revolution, and consequently into an advanced
industrial-capitalist formation? This is exactly what some
prominent public intellectuals in the late Ottoman Empire tried to
achieve as a developmental strategy; long before Max Weber defined
the notion of capitalist spirit as the main motive behind the
development of capitalism. This book demonstrates how and why
Ottoman reformists adapted (English and French) economic theory to
the Ottoman institutional setting and popularized it to cultivate
bourgeois values in the public sphere as a developmental strategy.
It also reveals the imminent results of these efforts by presenting
examples of how bourgeois values permeated into all spheres of
socio-cultural life, from family life to literature, in the late
Ottoman Empire. The text examines how the interplay between Western
European economic theories and the traditional Muslim economic
cultural setting paved the way for a new synthesis of a
Muslim-capitalist value system; shedding light on the emergence of
capitalism-as a cultural and an economic system-and the social
transformation it created in a non-Western, and more specifically,
in the Muslim Middle Eastern institutional setting. This book will
be of great interest to scholars of modern Middle Eastern history,
economic history, and the history of economic thought.
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