Artisan entrepreneurs in Cairo and early-modern capitalism (1600-1800) [electronic resource] / Nelly Hanna.
Material type: TextSeries: Middle East studies beyond dominant paradigms | UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2011. 2015)Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (ix, 244 p. )Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780815651154
- 0815651155
- 331.7/94 22
- HD9999.H363 E343 2011
Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-235) and index.
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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