Artisan entrepreneurs in Cairo and early-modern capitalism (1600-1800) /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hanna, Nelly
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, c2011.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Middle East studies beyond dominant paradigms.
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Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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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?.