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An Ottoman Protocol Register
Containing ceremonies from 1736 to 1808: BEO Sadaret Defterleri 350 in Prime Ministry Ottoman State Archives, Istanbul
Edited with an introduction and annotations by Hakan Karateke
İstanbul, 2007
ISBN 978-9944-731-02-7 |
An Ottoman Protocol Register containing ceremonies from 1736 to 1808: BEO Sadaret Defterleri 350 in Prime Ministry Ottoman State Archives, Istanbul
The BEO 350 protocol register edited here is part of the Sublime Porte Archives series (Babıali Evrak Odası) of the Prime Ministry Ottoman State Archives (Başbakanlık Osmanlı Devlet Arşivi) in Istanbul. The register covers a number of ceremonies held on various occasions from 1736 to 1808 and primarily concerned with accession ceremonies, funerals and, most of all, the reception of envoys. This edition of the BEO 350 is accompanied by an introduction, a synoptic list of ceremonies, appendices, and indexes. The introduction examines various aspects of Ottoman ceremonies, particularly those of a diplomatic nature, and includes a section on the gifts and offerings exchanged by the Ottoman administration and foreign envoys.
“As briefly discussed in the introduction, ceremonies contribute, albeit modestly, to the validation of a regime’s political legitimacy and to its smooth functioning. When trying to determine the relationship between ceremonial rites and political power, the lofty symbolism of ceremonies needs to be interpreted with great care. Thus, detailed descriptions such as those found in protocol registers are extremely valuable, indeed indispensable, for a solid interpretation”.
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Uluslararası Sermaye ve Osmanlı Maliyesi, 1820-1875 (International Capital and Ottoman Public Finances, 1820-1875)
Hüseyin Al
İstanbul, 2007
ISBN 978-9944-5518-7-8 |
Uluslararası Sermaye ve Osmanlı Maliyesi, 1820-1875 (International Capital and Ottoman Public Finances, 1820-1875)
Winner of the 2004-2005 Best Doctoral Dissertation Prize in the Ottoman Bank Archives and Research Centre’s biannual competition, Unveiling the History of Turkish Banking and Finance, organized with the collaboration of the European Banking History Association and the History Foundation of Turkey.
Considered the ‘golden age’ of international capital markets, the 19th century coincides with a period during which Western European capital began to expand out of Europe into other parts of the world. Heading the list of regions that this capital started to move into were those countries that had newly acquired their independence or had no previous loan history. More specifically, when, at the beginning of the 19th century, newly independent Latin American countries – formerly Spanish colonies – entered international markets to seek loans, a process was set off, which despite short-lived breaks due to financial crises, lasted until the end of the century.
The study at hand offers a comparative analysis of the borrowing attempts of countries outside Western Europe in 19th century international capital markets, and of the varying conditions for these loans. At the same time, it highlights the similarities and differences that existed between the foreign debt incurred by the Ottoman Empire and that of other countries, as well as the difficulties that the Ottoman state experienced with foreign bondholders.
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Memalik-i Osmaniye Duhanları Müşterekü’l-Menfaa Reji Şirketi. Trabzon Reji İdaresi" (The Activities of the Régie des Tabacs de l’Empire Ottoman in the Black Sea Region)
Filiz Dığıroğlu
İstanbul, 2007
ISBN 978-9944-5518-8-5 |
Memalik-i Osmaniye Duhanları Müşterekü’l-Menfaa Reji Şirketi. Trabzon Reji İdaresi" (The Activities of the Régie des Tabacs de l’Empire Ottoman in the Black Sea Region)
Winner of the 2004-2005 Best Master’s Thesis Prize in the Ottoman Bank Archives and Research Centre’s biannual competition, Unveiling the History of Turkish Banking and Finance, organized with the collaboration of the European Banking History Association and the History Foundation of Turkey.
The Régie des Tabacs, which held the monopoly on tobacco in the Ottoman Empire, is an upshot of the period of foreign borrowing that began for the Ottoman State with the Crimean War. Since the Administration of the Public Debt (Düyun-ı Umumiye), founded to deal with the state’s debts, had handed over the administration of Ottoman tobacco to the Régie, the activities of that company are, to some extent, relevant to any socio-economic research of the late Ottoman period; by surrendering the administration of tobacco production to a consortium of three established with foreign capital, the Ottoman State seems to have resorted to a kind of privatization model with its own particular characteristics.
Founded in 1883, the Régie Company organized rapidly and, in order to control tobacco farming, began its operations in such major tobacco centers as Salonica, Izmir, Aleppo and Samsun. After the Régie took over the tobacco monopoly in Trabzon, a complex socio-economic web of relations emerged consisting of, in the first place, the Samsun Tobacco Factory, and then of the Samsun Tobacco Dock and markets, warehouses, depots, tobacco factories, local producers, merchants, the tobacco stock market, tobacco smugglers, guards, and the other Régie organizations.
Based largely on archival materials and periodicals, this work aims to provide a comprehensive analysis and evaluation of the activities of the Régie Administration in Trabzon and Samsun between 1883 and 1914.
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European Department Stores and Middle Eastern Consumers. The Orosdi-Back Saga
Uri M. Kupferschmidt
İstanbul, 2007
ISBN 978-9944-5518-9-2 |
European Department Stores and Middle Eastern Consumers. The Orosdi-Back Saga
Winner of the 2004-2005 Best Scientific Paper Prize in the Ottoman Bank Archives and Research Centre’s biannual competition, Unveiling the History of Turkish Banking and Finance, organized with the collaboration of the European Banking History Association and the History Foundation of Turkey.
In "another age of globalization", the Ets.Orosdi-Back were a trading company which stepped into the new business opportunities of the Middle East from the mid-19th century on. The Ets.Orosdi-Back became best known for their department stores in Istanbul, Cairo, Beirut, Tunis and Baghdad.
Adolf Orosdi, a Hungarian army officer, who had found refuge in the Ottoman Empire, opened a first clothing store in Galata in 1855. With the Back family, equally of Jewish Austro-Hungarian descent, Orosdi and his sons began establishing similar stores elsewhere.
In 1888, when their siège social was registered in Paris, they already had outlets in Philippopoli , Bucharest, Salonica, Izmir, Cairo, Alexandria, Tanta, and Tunis, as well as purchasing missions in industrial and commercial centers in Europe.
Their business gradually evolved from wholesale to retailing, in particular through grands magasins, which differed from the bazaar. This study aims to make an original contribution to the history of department stores in the Middle East.
Advertising nouveautés and articles de Paris, Orosdi-Back sold fashionable clothing and bonneterie, but also travel and household goods, toys etc. For decades they also had a large share in the marketing of fezzes. The consumption of foreign commodities gradually began to trickle down to the middle classes. Most etatist regimes therefore did not liquidate this class of foreign stores but nationalized them for their own economic purposes. In Egypt, the Omar Effendi chain, which carries the name of its origin in Istanbul, was recently re-privatised and purchased by a Saudi firm.
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Consuming the Orient
Edhem Eldem
Istanbul, 2007
ISBN 978-9944-731003
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Consuming the Orient
From travel posters to cigarette packs, from postcards to ornaments, from advertisements to comic strips, the Orient has often been turned by the West into yet another commodity for mass consumption. A closer look at the way in which the Orient was represented in Western consumer societies reveals a number of images and stereotypes revolving around four major themes: exoticism, ethnography, eroticism, and history. From the late nineteenth century to our times, these images have greatly evolved, from rough clichés to more neutral visions. Nevertheless, the attraction exerted by the Orient on the greater public continues unabated, even in Turkey, where almost two centuries of Westernization has ended up creating the very particular phenomenon of "Oriental Orientalism".
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Enlightenment Symposium Book
Edited by Binnaz Toprak
İstanbul, 2007
ISBN 978-9944-731-03-4 |
Enlightenment Symposium Book
Taking as its focal point Turkey, who is going through its own particular historical experience in creating and setting up a modern system of law, the symposium book aims to examine both the basic principles and institutions of modern law – arrived at through the contributions of Enlightenment philosophy – and the critiques they have drawn. Leading Turkish academics will consider critiques of the positive (or state) law component in modern law, the link between law and democratic legitimacy, and legal issues in Turkey, especially where freedom of opinion is concerned.
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