Dagli Murat. Kütahya in the Eighteenth Century: Transformation or the Persistence of the Old Order?

Berkeley: University of California, 2012. — 294 p.This dissertation examines the socioeconomic history of Kütahya, an inland town in western Anatolia, with a specific emphasis on the transformation that took place in the Ottoman Empire during the eighteenth century. However, it is not a socioeconomic history of an urban center or of a region in the traditional sense. Rather, it uses Kütahya and the surrounding region as a ground upon which it seeks to answer a series of questions about this transformation. These questions concern the impact of the administrative function of a city on its socioeconomic development; the extent to which a new financial policy implemented at the end of the seventeenth century—the malikâne system—affected power relations in the region surrounding Kütahya; and the role played by the cash requirements of the state at the end of the eighteenth century in the monetization of the economy. The dissertation also examines various aspects of credit relations, changes in consumption patterns, and the relationship between privilege and the accumulation of wealth.PageAbstract
List of Tables
List of MapsChapter 1: Locating Kütahya: Anatolia and Bithynia from the Thirteenth to the Fifteenth Century
The Political Context and the Frontier Region: Anatolia and Bithynia
The Socioeconomic Context of Bithynia
Chapter 2: Introducing Kütahya: Politics and Institutional Infrastructure of the Frontier Region
From Byzantine to Germiyan Rule
From Germiyan to Ottoman Rule
Chapter 3: A New Polity: Kütahya from the Fifteenth to the Late Seventeenth Century
Consolidation of Ottoman Power
Formation of the Early-Modern Ottoman State
Kütahya and the Early-Modern Ottoman State
The Capital of the Province of Anatolia
Demographic Change
The Celâlî Uprisings
Nomadic Groups
Maps
Chapter 4: Kütahya at the Turn of the Eighteenth Century
Back and Forth with Evliyâ Çelebi in and around Kütahya
Chapter 5: Kütahya (1700-1760)
Notes on the Primary Sources
The Kütahya Court Records
Kütahya Seen through the Court Records
The Neighborhoods and the Fortress
The Military Class
The Persistence of the Old Order
Tax Farming and the Many Claims on the Revenues
Credit Relations
Chapter 6: Kütahya (1760-1820)
Protracted Wars and Financial Crisis
Credit Relations
Wealth and Consumption
The Missing Cup Makers
Political Privilege and Wealth
Politics of the Notables: The Example of the GermiyanzâdesAppendix: Two Major Aspects of the Long Eighteenth-Century: Notables and Trade
On the Local Notables
On Trade
France, Izmir and the Hinterland (Western and Central Anatolia)