Landholding and Commercial Agriculture in the Middle East

At the State University of New York at Binghamton, Çağlar Keyder is Associate Professor of Sociology and Faruk Tabak is Research Associate at the Fernand Braudel Center.

"This is an important work. It deals with a crucial topic in modern Middle Eastern history from many different perspectives. The transformation of the Ottoman economy to commercial agriculture is important both in itself and what it tells us about the social and political changes occurring in the Middle East in the nineteenth century. The combination of perspectives and the faithfulness with which all the authors stick to the central topic give the work an internal integrity which in turn provides a great deal of cumulative insight into the transformation of Ottoman agricultural society and economy." — Bruce Masters, Wesleyan University

• Acknowledgments Introduction: Large-Scale Commercial Agriculture in the Ottoman Empire?Caglar Keyder Part I 1. The Emrgence of Big Farms, Ciftliks: State, Landlords, and TenantsHalil Inalcik 2. On the Ciftlik DebateGilles Veinstein Part II 3. Peasants, Commercialization, and Legitimation of State Power in Sixteenth-Century AnatoliaHuri Islamoglu-Inan 4. Wealth and Power in the Land of Olives: Economic and Political Activities of Muridzade Haci Mehmed Agha, Notable of EdremitSuraiya Faroqhi 5. The Trade of Cotton and Cloth in Izmir: From the Second Half of the Eighteenth Century to the Early Nineteenth CenturyElena Frangakis-Syrett 6. Migrant Labor in Western Anatolia, 1750-1850Resat Kasaba 7. Property, Land, and Labor in Nineteenth-Century AnatoliaTosun Aricanli 8. Agrarian Fluctuations and Modes of Labor Control in the Western Arc of the Fertile Crescent, c. 1700-1850Faruk Tabak 9. The Introduction of Commercial Agriculture in the Province of Mosul and its Effects on the Peasantry, 1750-1850Dina Rizk Khoury 10. The Grain Economy of Late Ottoman Syria and the Issue of Large-Scale CommercializationLinda Schilcher Notes Glossary General Bibliography Contributors Index