A Monetary History of the Ottoman Empire
By Sevket Pamuk
2017
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This volume examines the monetary history of a large empire located at the crossroads of intercontinental trade from the fourteenth century until the end of World War I. It covers all regions of the empire from the Balkans through Anatolia, Syria, Egypt and the Gulf to the Maghrib. The implications of monetary developments for social and political history are also discussed throughout the volume. This is an important and pathbreaking book by one of the most distinguished economic historians in the field.
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Sevket Pamuk
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Şevket Pamuk, born in 1950, is an internationally recognized professor of economics and economic history. Pamuk is also the older brother of Nobel Prize-winning Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk.
