Capitalism in the Ottoman Balkans: Industrialisation and Modernity in Macedonia

by Pinar Cakiroglu and Costas Lapavitsas

Book Overview

The Ottoman Empire went through rapid economic and social development in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as it approached its end. Profound changes took place in its European territories, particularly and prominently in Macedonia. In the decades before the First World War, industrial capitalism began to emerge in Ottoman Macedonia and its impact was felt across society.
The port city of Salonica was at the epicentre of this...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0755642775
• ISBN13: 9780755642779
• Release Date: May 2021
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"