The Middle East in the world economy 1800-1914

Internal Bibliographies/Indexes Note: Bibliography: p. 246-370.
Includes index.

Contents Note: The Middle East economy in 1800
The economic consequences of the age of reforms, 1800-1850
The expansion of trade with Europe, 1800-1850
The Ottoman road to bankruptcy and the Anatolian economy, 1850-1881
Egypt, 1850-1882 - from foreign borrowing to bankruptcy and occupation
The provinces of Greater Syria, 1850-1880 - the economic and social tensions of the 1850s and their consequences
The Iraqi provinces, 1850-1880
Anatolia and Istanbul, 1881-1914
The Egyptian economy, 1882-19114
Mount Lebanon, Syria and Palestine, 1880-1914
The Iraqi provinces, 1880-1914

Summary or Abstract: Examines the growth and transformation of the Middle East economy during the 19th and early 20th centuries. The text looks at how the region's economic structures were fundamentally altered by the growing impact of European trade and finance, and by the internal reforms of the rulers of Egypt. It also examines in detail the impact of this process on the four central areas of the Middle East. The result, the author argues, was the creation of a fixed pattern of agricultural, industrial and financial activity. The states formed after the collapse of teh Ottoman Empire found that altering this pattern in their attempts to promote a less dependent form of development was frought with difficulty; and the problems they faced and their different approaches are still highly relevant to the Middle East's economic development today.