Wealth in the Ottoman and Post-Ottoman Balkans PDF
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Evguenia Davidova is Associate Professor of International Studies at PortlandStateUniversity,Oregon.Shehaspublishedextensivelyonthe nineteenth-century socio-economic history of the Ottoman Balkans. Davidova is the author of Balkan Transitions to Modernity and Nation- States: Through the Eyes of Three Generations of Merchants (1780s–1890s) (2013). “This collection of articles on wealth and poverty in the late Ottoman and early post-Ottoman Balkans offers a refreshingly multifaceted and oftenintriguingpanoramaofBalkansocietyinacrucialeraoftransition. Covering most of the Balkan countries, the volume pays attention not onlytoeconomicandsocialfactors,butalsotoinstitutionalandcultural aspectsofwealthandpoverty,dealingwithoftenunexploredbuthighly relevant case studies. Written by a group of renowned historians of the Balkans, the book represents a thought-provoking addition to mainstream Balkan historiography on the topic.” Raymond Detrez, University of Ghent “This volume is a truly original intervention into both Balkan and Ottoman history. Dispensing with the tired old frame of nationalism, itrepeatedlycrosseslocal,regional,nationalandimperialboundariesto bring us a set of deeply researched articles on wealth and poverty from Athens to Istanbul, and many places in between, during the long and dramaticnineteenthcentury.Theperspectivesarefreshandtheattention to locales which are usually ignored in grand narratives is very welcome.” Molly Greene, Princeton University WEALTH IN THE OTTOMAN AND POST- OTTOMAN BALKANS A Socio-Economic History Edited by E D VGUENIA AVIDOVA Publishedin2016by I.B.Tauris&Co.Ltd London•NewYork www.ibtauris.com Copyrighteditorialselectionq2016EvgueniaDavidova Copyrightindividualchaptersq2016 NikolayAretov,EvgueniaDavidova, EvdoxiosDoxiadis,GerganaGeorgieva,EyalGinio,Andreea-RoxanaIancu, DaliborJovanovski,EfiKanner,EleonoraNaxidou,EvelinaRazhdavichka-Kiessling, AndrewRobarts,MomirSamardzˇic´,DimitrisStamatopoulos TherightofEvgueniaDavidovatobeidentifiedastheeditorofthisworkhasbeen assertedbytheeditorinaccordancewiththeCopyright,DesignsandPatentsAct1988. Allrightsreserved.Exceptforbriefquotationsinareview,thisbook,oranypart thereof,maynotbereproduced,storedinorintroducedintoaretrievalsystem,or transmitted,inanyformorbyanymeans,electronic,mechanical,photocopying, recordingorotherwise,withoutthepriorwrittenpermissionofthepublisher. Everyattempthasbeenmadetogainpermissionfortheuseoftheimagesinthisbook. Anyomissionswillberectifiedinfutureeditions. Referencestowebsiteswerecorrectatthetimeofwriting. LibraryofOttomanStudies52 ISBN:9781784534394 eISBN:9780857739490 ePDF: 9780857726056 AfullCIPrecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary AfullCIPrecordisavailablefromtheLibraryofCongress LibraryofCongressCatalogCardNumber:available TypesetinGaramondThreebyOKSPrepressServices,Chennai,India PrintedandboundbyCPIGroup(UK)Ltd,Croydon,CR04YY CONTENTS List of Abbreviations viii Glossary x List of Contributors xii Introduction 1 Evguenia Davidova Part I Wealth, Property, and Social Status 1. Women, Wealth, and the State in Greece (1750–1860) 9 Evdoxios Doxiadis 2. People of Wealth and Influence: the Case of the Khadzhitoshev Family (1770s–1870s) 30 Evelina Razhdavichka-Kiessling 3. Defining the Patrimony: Name, Lineage and Inheritance Practices (Wallachia at the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century) 50 Andreea-Roxana Iancu Part II Institutional and Social Practices 4. Reconstruction, Resettlement, and Economic Revitalization in pre-Tanzimat Ottoman Bulgaria 71 Andrew Robarts vi WEALTHINTHEOTTOMAN ANDPOST-OTTOMANBALKANS 5. The Poor Men of Christ and their Leaders: Wealth and Poverty within the Christian Orthodox Clergy of the Ottoman Empire (Eighteenth–Nineteenth Century) 85 Dimitris Stamatopoulos 6. Health as Wealth: Commodification of Doctor–Patient Relations in the Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Balkans 102 Evguenia Davidova 7. From “the Sick”, “the Blind”, and “the Crippled” to the Nation of “Toiling People”: Visions of the Poor in the Late Ottoman Empire and the Early Turkish Republic 117 Efi Kanner Part III Transnational Networks and Exchanges 8. The Rich in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Arbanasi: Networks of Prosperity 139 Gergana Georgieva 9. Redrawing State Borders: Prosperity to Poverty in Ottoman and post-Ottoman Bitola (Monastir) 152 Dalibor Jovanovski 10. War, Dynasty, and Philanthropy: Kavala and the Khedivial Relief Campaign during the Balkan Wars (1912–13) 170 Eyal Ginio Part IV Discourses of Social and National Values 11. National Interpretations of Misfortune and Welfare: the Paradigm of the Intellectuals of the Bulgarian Revival 189 Eleonora Naxidou 12. “People’s Welfare” as National Security: Serbian Liberals and Discourses on Economic Development in pre-Independence Serbia (1850s–1870s) 205 Momir Samardzˇi´c CONTENTS vii 13. Ricchi e Poveri: Images of Wealth and Poverty in Nineteenth-Century Bulgarian Literature 229 Nikolay Aretov Conclusion 250 Evguenia Davidova Notes 253 Bibliography 295 Index 317 LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS a.e. arkhivna edinitsa (archival unit) AA Antolikos Aste¯r/Astir AG Arhiva Genealogica˘ AIU Alliance Israe´lite Universelle AKA AlexandrosKaratheodoresArchive,InstituteforHellenic Studies, Athens BAR Biblioteca Academiei Romaˆne BIA-NBKM Buˇlgarski istoricheski arkhiv, Narodna Biblioteka “Sv. Kiril i Metodii” BNF Bibliothe`que Nationale de France BOA Bas¸bakanlık Osmanlı Ars¸ivi C.AS. Cevdet Askeriye C.IKTS. Cevdet Iktisat C.MTZ Cevdet Eyalet-i Mu¨mtaze HAT Hatt-ı Hu¨mayun ML.VRD.TMT.d MaliyeNezaretiVaridatMuhasebesi Temettuatdefterleri BS BalkanStudies DARM DrzhavenArhivnaRepublikaMakedonija,Skopje dr. drachma EB EtudesBalkaniques FO ForeignOffice g. grosia,grosha,guru¸s LIST OFABBREVIATIONS ix GAK GeneralStateArchivesofGreece Efeteio Civil Law Decisions of the Court of Appeals ofAthens Leonidio LeonidioNotarialArchive Mykonos MykonosNotarialArchive h. hacı,hadzhi HMG HanımlaraMahsusGazete I.A.Y.E. HistoricalArchiveoftheGreekMinistryofForeignAffairs ICˇ Istorijskicˇasopis IEEE HistoricalandEthnologicalSocietyofGreece Mykonos MykonosNotarialArchive Naxos NaxosNotarialArchive IJMES InternationalJournalofMiddleEastStudies IL Indreptarealegii IP Istoricheskipregled JEH JournalofEconomicHistory JESHO JournaloftheEconomicandSocialHistoryoftheOrient JFH JournalofFamilyHistory JMGS JournalofModernGreekStudies k. kuru¸s LC LegiuireaCaragea MES MiddleEasternStudies MH TheMissionaryHerald NPT NewPerspectivesonTurkey OM OrienteModerno ON Opsˇtinskenovine p. para RGADA RossiskiiGosudarstvennyiArkhivDrevnykhAktov RGVIA RossiskiiGosudarstvennyiVoenno-IstoricheskiiArkhiv RIM Regionalenistoricheskimuze˘i,Gabrovo SBAN SborniknaBuˇlgarskataAkademianaNaukite SN Srpskenovine
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