Includes index.

Introduction : 'Oriental despotism' in world-system perspective /Huri çIlamoæglu-çInan -- Late-eighteenth-century-early-nineteenth-century Egypt : merchant capitalism or modern capitalism? / Peter Gran -- Agenda for Ottoman history / Huri çIslamoæglu-çInan & Çaæglar Keyder -- State and economy in the Ottoman Empire / çIlkay Sunar -- The incorporation of the Ottoman Empire into the world-economy / Immanuel Wallerstein, Hale Decdeli & Resat Kasaba -- State and peasants in the Ottoman Empire : a study of peasant economy in north-central Anatolia during the sixteenth century / Huri çIslamoæglu-çInan -- The cotton famine and its effects on the Ottoman Empire / Orhan Kurmus -- The middle Danube cul-de-sac / Bruce McGowan -- Commodity production for world-markets and relations of production in Ottoman agriculture, 1840-1913 / Sevket Pamuk -- Primitive accumulation in Egypt, 1798-1882 / Alan R. Richards -- Price history and the Bursa Silk industry : a study in Ottoman industrial decline, 1550-1650 / Murat Çizakça -- Notes on the production of cotton and cotton cloth in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Anatolia / Suraiya Faroqhi -- The silk-reeling industry of Mount Lebanon, 1840-1914 : a study of the possibilities and limitations of factory production in the periphery / Roger Owen -- The silk industry of Bursa 1880-1914 / Donald Quataert -- A provisional report concerning the impact of European capital on Ottoman port workers, 1880-1909 / Donald Quataert -- The Venetian presence in the Ottoman Empire, 1600-1630 / Suraiya Faroqhi -- A study of the feasibility of using eighteenth-century Ottoman financial records as an indicator of economic activity / Mehmet Genç -- When and how British cotton goods invaded the Levant markets / Halil Inalc¸k.