Ekin Mahmuzlu
Brill, Leiden 2025 [xvi, 441 pp., ISBN: 978-90-04-71458-8]
Type: New Publications

Economic historians have often examined the effects of the integration of the Ottoman Empire into the world markets with macro-level approaches. This book aims to scrutinize the effects of this transition to a capitalist economy through a micro-level approach instead, using micro-level data and microeconomics. It examines the structure of agricultural production and commerce by analyzing major crops and commercial institutions before assessing agrarian, commercial, and maritime changes at the micro-level. Utilizing recent developments in economic history, institutional economics, and ecological economics, it explores the causality behind these agrarian and commercial changes. 

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Geography and Commercial History of the Southeastern Black Sea Region (1829–1914)
Chapter 3 Maritime Change (1829–1914)
Chapter 4 Commercial Age of Change: Formation and Transformation of Long-Distance Markets
Chapter 5 Long-Distance Markets and Agricultural Change
Chapter 6 Agricultural Age of Change: Change in Production Processes
Chapter 7 Agricultural Age of Change: Growth (1880s–1910s)
Chapter 8 Conclusion
Appendix 1 Merchants
Appendix 2 Photos
Appendix 3 Climate
Appendix 4 Tobacco Expedition of 1844–1847
Appendix 5 Long-term Prices (Durum/Hard Wheat)
Appendix 6 Long-Term Prices (Barley)
Appendix 7 Long-Term Prices (Maize)
Appendix 8 Long-Term Prices (Hazelnut)
Appendix 9 Long-Term Prices (Haricot Beans)
Appendix 10 Prices of Tobacco
Appendix 11 Population Statistics
Appendix 12 Various Agricultural Estimations
Appendix 13 Agricultural Estimations of Late-1880s and 1909
Bibliography
Index