Consumption Studies and the History of the Ottoman Empire, 1550-1922: An Introduction PDF
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Page i Consumption Studies and the History of the Ottoman Empire, 15501922 Start of Citation[PU]State University of New York Press[/PU][DP]2000[/DP]End of Citation Page ii SUNY series in the Social and Economic History of the Middle East Donald Quataert, editor Start of Citation[PU]State University of New York Press[/PU][DP]2000[/DP]End of Citation Page iii Consumption Studies and the History of the Ottoman Empire, 15501922 An Introduction Edited By Donald Quataert Start of Citation[PU]State University of New York Press[/PU][DP]2000[/DP]End of Citation Page iv Published by State University of New York Press © 2000 State University of New York All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission. No part of this book may be stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means including electronic, electrostatic, magnetic tape, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise without the prior permission in writing of the publisher. For information, address State University of New York Press, State University Plaza, Albany, N.Y., 12246 Production by Diane Ganeles Marketing by Nancy Farrell Library of Congress CataloginginPublication Data Consumption studies and the history of the Ottoman Empire, 15501922: an introduction / edited by Donald Quataert. p. cm.—(SUNY series in the social and economic history of the middle East) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0791444317 (acid free paper).—ISBN 0791444325 (pbk. : acid free paper) 1. Consumption (Economics)—Turkey—History. I. Quataert, Donald, 1941. II. Series. HC495.C6C66 2000 339.4'7'09561—dc21 9924669 CIP 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Start of Citation[PU]State University of New York Press[/PU][DP]2000[/DP]End of Citation Page v For Bethany —DQ Start of Citation[PU]State University of New York Press[/PU][DP]2000[/DP]End of Citation Page vi Guide to Pronounciation of Turkish Words C, c = "j" as in juice Ç, ç = "ch" as in cheek = soft "g," hardly pronounced I, 1 = without a dot, pronounced like the first syllable of "earnest" I, i = with a dot, between "in" and "eel" Ö, ö = as in the umlaut o in German > • = as in "sheet" Ü, ü = as in the umlat ü in German ^ = used to denote a lenghtened vowel (a, i, and u) or to palatize a preceding g, k, or l After Cornell H. Fleischer, Bureaucrat and Intellectual in the Ottoman Empire: The Historian Mustafa Âli (15411600) Princeton, 1986, xvi. Start of Citation[PU]State University of New York Press[/PU][DP]2000[/DP]End of Citation Page vii Contents 1. Introduction 1 Donald Quataert 2. Research on the History of Ottoman Consumption: A Preliminary Exploration 15 of Sources and Models Suraiya Faroqhi 3. Toward an Isolario of the Ottoman Inheritance Inventory, with Special 45 Reference to Manisa (ca. 16001700) Joyce Hedda Matthews 4. The Age of Tulips: Confluence and Conflict in Early Modern Consumer 83 Culture (15501730) Ariel Salzmann 5. Aspects of the Ottoman Elite's Food Consumption: Looking for "Staples," 107 "Luxuries," and "Delicacies'' in a Changing Century Tüilay Artan 6. The Transition to Mass Fashion System Dress in the Later Ottoman Empire 201 Charlotte Jirousek 7. Cheap and Easy: The Creation of Consumer Culture in Late Ottoman 243 Society Elizabeth B. Frierson 8. Personal, Public, and Political (Re)Constructions: Photographs and 261 Consumption Nancy Micklewright Start of Citation[PU]State University of New York Press[/PU][DP]2000[/DP]End of Citation Page viii 9. Goods in the Mahalle: Distributional Encounters in EighteenthCentury 289 Istanbul Madeline C. Zilfi Bibliography 313 Index 353 Start of Citation[PU]State University of New York Press[/PU][DP]2000[/DP]End of Citation 1 Introduction 1 Donald Quataert For more than a decade, scholars in European, North American, and East Asian history have been pursuing consumption studies as an important new key to unlocking the past. Materialists to the core, they argue that the consumption of goods, not their production, drives history. The comestibles, clothes, furniture, and household goods that nourish and adorn our bodies and homes, they say, define our social identities and ranks. Some, especially those in United States and Eu ropean studies, go further and argue that modernity itself occurs at the moment when consumption becomes a widely dispersed, socially accepted, and morally-proper form of economic behavior and charac teristic of social differentiation. Modernity is also marked by the rise of mass consumerism, and by its ascendancy of the consumer over the producer. In sum, in their view, we are not what we make but what we eat, wear, and use. Convinced of the centrality of consumption to the making of the modem world and of its essentiality to modem identity, consumptionists have expended enormous energies uncovering patterns of consumption in the past. For example, they have combed probate inventories, hold ing that the nature and the quantity of the goods possessed capture the structure, hierarchy, and mobility of a society. Hence, in one study, a scholar examined three thousand probate inventories in England, 1660- 1760, to determine the kinds of goods being purchased and the chang ing pattern of their usage over time. At this early date, she concluded, people possessed ever-greater quantities and varieties of goods, in order to mark themselves apart-that is, for purposes of social differ entiation. Thus, a consumer revolution and the modern era already had begun by ca. 1700.2 1
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