Artisan entrepreneurs : in Cairo and early-modern capitalism (1600-1800) / / Nelly Hanna.
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| Superior document: | Middle East studies beyond dominant paradigms |
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| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Middle East studies beyond dominant paradigms.
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| Physical Description: | ix, 244 p. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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?.