Manufacturing in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey, 1500-1950

Manufacturing in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey, 1500-1950This book provides the first comprehensive history of manufacturing in the Ottoman Empire and its Turkish successor state. As the Ottoman Empire evolved, manufacturing underwent an unusual trajectory. Expansion in the sixteenth century gave way to transformation and adaptation after the Industrial Revolution. Then, in the earlier part of the twentieth century, modern Turkey's attempt at state led industrialization became a model for many developing

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