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

Author:
Hanna, Nelly
Published:
Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2011.
Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
ix, 244 p. ; 24 cm.
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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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ISBN:
9780815632795 (cloth : alk. paper)
0815632797 (cloth : alk. paper)
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-235) and index.
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