East Meets West

Aldershot. 2008

Editors

Philip L. Cottrell

Iain L. Fraser

Monika Pohle Fraser

This volume offers a consideration from a number of perspectives of the principal forces that further integrated the Ottoman Empire and Western Europe during the first century of industrialisation. The essays not only review and analyse the commercial, financial and monetary factors, negative as well as positive, that bore upon the region’s initial stages of modern transformation, but also provide a ready introduction to major aspects the economy and society of the Ottoman Empire in the nineteenth century. The outcome is a broad ranging consideration of how all these issues played a fundamental role in the final decades of the Ottoman Empire and the emergence of Turkey as a modern state with links to both east and west.

Table of contents

• Evolution of Domestic Borrowing in the Ottoman Empire (Murat Çizakça)
• From Bimetallism to the ‘Limping Gold Standard’: The Ottoman Monetary System in the Nineteenth Century (Sevket Pamuk)
• Trading Links: Patterns of Information and Communication: The Steamship and the Modernization of East-West Commerce (David M. Williams)
• Europe and the Ottoman Empire in Mid-Nineteenth Century: Banks and the Finance of the State and Railway Construction (Çaglar Keyder)
• A Survey of European Investment in Turkey, 1854-1914: Banks and the Finance of the State and Railway Construction (Philip L. Cottrell)
• A General Survey of the History of the Imperial Ottoman Bank (Andre Autheman)
• State Borrowing and the Imperial Ottoman Bank in the Bankruptcy Era (1863-1877) (Christopher Clay)
• French Investment in Public and Private Funds in the Ottoman Empire on the Eve of the Great War (Jacques Thobie)
• The Financial Structure of the Stock Exchange in the Late Ottoman Empire (Zafer Toprak)
• Anatolian and Baghdad: Investment and Foreign Policy before the Great War (Boris Barth)