Artisan entrepreneurs in Cairo and early-modern capitalism (1600-1800) /
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Syracuse, N.Y. :
Syracuse University Press,
c2011.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | Middle East studies beyond dominant paradigms.
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| Online Access: | Click to View |
Table of Contents:
- Defining a framework for the economic history of early-modern Egypt
- Artisan entrepreneurs: capitalist practices in a precapitalist environment
- A period of unprecedented social mobility for nonelites
- The Jalfis: oil pressers and emirs
- Competition between different forms of capitalism
- Guilds: moving between traditional and precapitalist structures
- Conclusion: what remained of artisan entrepreneurship a hundred years later?.