Artisan Entrepreneurs in Cairo and Early-Modern Capitalism (1600-1800) /

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Hanna, Nelly
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2011.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Middle East studies beyond dominant paradigms.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Capitalism > Egypt > Cairo > History.
Entrepreneurship > Egypt > Cairo > History.
Artisans > Egypt > Cairo > History.
Egypt > Economic conditions.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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?

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