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Relations of Production in the Ottoman Empire
Course Code: TRH511
Course Type: Area Elective
Couse Group: Second Cycle (Master's Degree)
Education Language: Turkish
Work Placement: N/A
Theory: 3
Prt.: 0
Credit: 3
Lab: 0
ECTS: 5
Objectives of the Course

To explain the sources of income of the Ottoman Empire. To Explain how and why the changing world economy has caused the Ottoman economy. To explain how this great global economic change affects the Ottoman production style, traders, guilds and the hand-woven industry. As a result, it is to reveal that the changing economic conditions in the world are related to the knowledge revolution and that the economies of the political systems that do not make konowledge revolution will have a negative effect.

Course Content

The economic dissolution of the Ottoman Empire began with the defeat of the knowledge revolution. ottoman scholars tasked with producing knowledge could not keep other sectors alive. The remaining back Ottoman producer class in global competition has gradually lost the domestic market to foreigners. Ottoman Turkish subjects had to choose to be civil servants as the best way to make a living. This situation shook the Ottoman finance deeply. The social, economic and political consequences of this process will be examined.

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