Artisan entrepreneurs [electronic resource] : in Cairo and early-modern capitalism (1600-1800) / Nelly Hanna.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Middle East studies beyond dominant paradigmsPublication details: Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, c2011.Edition: 1st edDescription: ix, 244 pSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 331.7/94 22
LOC classification:
  • HD9999.H363 E343 2011eb
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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?.
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Includes bibliographical references 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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