Table of Contents

List of tables; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Historical outline; 2. Money; 3. Commodities; 4. Slaves; 5. Grain; 6. Wine; 7. Alum; 8. Cloth; 9. Metals; 10. The fall of Constantinople and Ottoman-Genoese relations after 1453; Conclusion: the Latin contribution to the early Ottoman economy; Appendices; Glossary; Place names; Select bibliography; Index.

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A readable and authoritative account of the economic development of the early Ottoman state.

Reviews

'... the work conveys a new perspective on early Ottoman history and the Eastern Mediterranean of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Most importantly, Fleet has cogently brought the economy back in to the early Ottoman narrative.' Mediterranean Historical Review '... a welcome contribution to the Ottoman studies and highlights the early period from an angle that has previously been largely overlooked.' Acta Orientalia '... meticulously written ... a solid piece of scholarship, the book will be much used by future scholars.' Studia Orientalia