Consumption Studies and the History of the Ottoman Empire, 1550-1992 : An Introduction

by Quataert, Donald

• ISBN13: 9780791444320
• ISBN10: 0791444325
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-01-01
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

Summary

Tracing a host of important and exciting 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. 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.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(14)
Donald Quataert
Research on the History of Ottoman Consumption: A Preliminary Exploration of Sources and Models	15	(30)
Suraiya Faroqhi
Toward an Isolario of the Ottoman Inheritance Inventory, with Special Reference to Manisa (ca. 1600--1700)	45	(38)
Joyce Hedda Matthews
The Age of Tulips: Confluence and Conflict in Early Modern Consumer Culture (1550--1730)	83	(24)
Ariel Salzmann
Aspects of the Ottoman Elite's Food Consumption: Looking for ``Staples,'' ``Luxuries,'' and ``Delicacies'' in a Changing Century	107	(94)
Tulay Artan
The Transition to Mass Fashion System Dress in the Later Ottoman Empire	201	(42)
Charlotte Jirousek
Cheap and Easy: The Creation of Consumer Culture in Late Ottoman Society	243	(18)
Elizabeth B. Frierson
Personal, Public, and Political (Re)Constructions: Photographs and Consumption	261	(28)
Nancy Micklewright
Goods in the Mahalle: Distributional Encounters in Eighteenth-Century Istanbul	289	(24)
Madeline C. Zilfi
Bibliography	313	(40)
Index	353