A monetary history of the Ottoman Empire / Şevket Pamuk.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-269) and index.

-- 1. Introduction -- Trade, money, and states in the Mediterranean basin -- Ottoman economic policies -- Money, economy, and the Ottoman state -- A periodization -- 2. Trade and money at the origins -- Gold and silver; East and West -- Byzantine Empire and the Balkans -- Anatolia -- Early Ottoman coinage -- Mints and their administration -- Silver mines -- Copper coinage -- 3. Interventionism and debasements as policy -- Centralization and interventionism -- The silver famines -- The debasements of Mehmed II -- Motives and explanations -- Towards a political economy of Ottoman debasements -- 4. The emerging monetary system -- The gold sultani: an "international" coin -- Foreign coins -- Gold-silver-copper -- Bimetallism or silver monometallism? -- Increasing use of money -- 5. Credit and finance -- Credit -- Business partnerships -- State finances and financing the state -- 6. Money and empire -- Monetary zones within the Empire -- The Balkans -- Egypt -- The shahi zone -- The Crimean akce -- The Maghrib -- Algeria -- Tunis -- Tripoli -- 7. The Price Revolution in the Near East revisited -- Competing explanations -- New evidence and a review of the old -- Why did prices rise in the Near East? -- Long-term consequences of the Price Revolution -- 8. Debasement and disintegration -- The debasement of 1585-86: a turning point? -- Fiscal crises and monetary instability -- Disappearance of the akce -- 9. In the absence of domestic currency -- Debased coinage in Ottoman markets -- Belated government intervention -- The return of copper coinage -- 10. The new Ottoman kurus -- The Ottoman kurus -- Economic expansion and fiscal stability -- Fiscal troubles and depreciation of the kurus -- 11. Linkages with the periphery -- The para in Egypt -- The riyal of Tunis -- Algeria -- Tripoli -- Crimea -- Convergence of currencies -- 12. The Great Debasement -- Attempts at financial centralization -- Evolution of internal borrowing -- The Great Debasement (1808-34) -- Financing the state: The Galata bankers -- 13. From bimetallism to the "limping gold standard" -- Integration to the world economy -- Bimetallism, new coinage, and paper money -- Banks for lending to the state -- External borrowing -- The limping gold standard -- Commercial banking -- The Financing of World War I -- 14. Conclusions -- App. I. Excerpts from Ottoman laws on taxation, money, mints, and mines -- App. II. Price indices for Istanbul, 1469-1914 -- App. III. A note on basic economic and monetary magnitudes.