Consumption studies and the history of the Ottoman Empire, 1550-1922 : an introduction /

"Tracing a host of 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 o...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Quataert, Donald, 1941-2011
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2000.
Series:SUNY series in the social and economic history of the Middle East.
Subjects:
Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Donald Quataert
  • Research on the history of Ottoman consumption : A preliminary exploration of sources and models / Suraiya Faroqhi
  • Toward an isolario of the Ottoman inheritance inventory, with special reference to Manisa (ca. 1600-1700) / Joyce Hedda Matthews
  • The age of tulips : confluence and conflict in early modern consumer culture (1550-1730) / Ariel Salzmann
  • Aspects of the Ottoman elite's food consumption : looking for "staples," "luxuries," and "delicacies" in a changing century / Tülay Artan
  • The transition to mass fashion system dress in the later Ottoman Empire / Charlotte Jirousek
  • Cheap and easy : the creation of consumer culture in late Ottoman society / Elizabeth B. Frierson
  • Personal, public, and political (re)constructions : photographs and consumption / Nancy Micklewright
  • Goods in the mahalle : distributional encounters in eighteenth-century Istanbul / Madeline C. Zilfi.