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Consumption Studies and the History of the Ottoman Empire, 1550-1922

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An innovative application of consumption studies to the field of Ottoman history.

Tracing a host of important and exciting topics relating to consumption, this book describes and analyzes the rise of mass fashion dress, changing fashions in clothing, the transcultural significance of tulip consumption, the rise of print advertising, the use of food as a marker of elite status, and the emergence of photographs as a consumer commodity. The emphasis on consumption rather than production offers new perspectives on the Ottoman and Middle East past, and by extension that of East and Southeast Asia as well as Africa. Its findings also invite comparisons with those in U.S. and European consumption history. Also included are chapters that offer guidance in the use of archival sources for research in consumption history and a methodological overview of the utility of consumption studies for Ottoman and Middle East history.

Contributors include Tulay Artan, Suraiya Faroqhi, Elizabeth B. Frierson, Charlotte Jirousek, Joyce Hedda Matthews, Nancy Micklewright, Donald Quataert, Ariel Salzmann, and Madeline C. Zilfi.

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ISBN: 9780791444320
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Author: Donald Quataert
Publisher: SUNY Press an imprint of State University of New York Press
Format: Paperback
Pagination: 358 pages
Series: SUNY Series in the Social and Economic History of the Middle East
Genres: Middle Eastern history