The Balkan Economies c.1800–1914
The Balkan Economies c.1800–1914
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inc GSTThe Balkan Economies c. 1800–1914 is a strongly revisionist 1997 book which compares the economic progress of Serbia, Bulgaria, Bosnia, Montenegro and Macedonia in the century before World War I. Michael Palairet draws heavily on native-language primary sources to argue that these territories probably experienced economic decline rather than growth, at least from the mid-nineteenth century. This comprehensive study of the economic evolution of the Balkans suggests that the Ottoman and Habsburg empires in providing a framework of order and property rights did more for agrarian and industrial development than succeeding regional and nationalist governments. Based on in-depth research, this book promises to be the definitive economic history of the Balkans.
- Extensive use of native language primary sources
- With such in-depth research, this book promises to be the definitive economic history of the Balkans
- The author shows that under Ottoman rule more progress was possible than under successive national and regional governments
Product details
November 2003Paperback
9780521522564
432 pages
229 × 152 × 24 mm
0.63kg
5 b/w illus. 6 maps 46 tables
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Table of Contents
- List of Tables
- Preface
- Part I. The Balkan Economies during the Ottoman Period to 1878:
- 1. Balkan population 1790–1914
- 2. The Balkans under the Ottomans 1800–1860s: institutional change and economic progress
- 3. Agriculture and industry in Ottoman Bulgaria in the twilight of Ottoman rule
- 4. Serbia 1815–75: institutions, resources and market forces
- 5. Bosnia and Montenegro before 1878
- 6. The Ottoman Balkans and free Serbia: economic conditions and 'renascence'
- Part II. Economic Decline and Political Freedom 1878–1914:
- 7. Bulgaria after 1878: origins of productive decline
- 8. Bosnia and Montenegro: political change and economic development 1878–1914
- 9. The Balkan textile industries 1878–1914: markets, technology, labour
- 10. Serbia and Bulgaria 1878–1914: modernization and productive decline
- 11. Economic change in Macedonia and Thrace 1878–1914
- 12. Summary and conclusions
- Bibliography.
