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Manufacturing and Technology Transfer in the Ottoman Empire, 1800-1914
About this book
Donald Quataert's book on the transfer of new technologies and the importation of skilled workers fits into the larger question of how modernity was received in the Ottoman Empire.
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Information
Concluding
Remarks
59
uncertain
and
needs
to
be
explored.
But
the
price
paid
is
known,
going
down
the
path
of
Ottoman
economic
growth
as
opposed
to
development.
The
state
factories
do
not
appear
to
have
been
intended
as
instruments
of
economic
development
but
rather
as
mere
suppliers
of
governmental
needs.
The
other
big
factories
established
with
private
funds
fall
into
two
groups,
those
supplying
the
needs
of
the
port
cities
and
the
Istanbul
capital
and
those
serving
the
export
market
(wool
and
silk
spinning
and
tobacco
processing).
Ottoman
subjects
became
increasingly
active
in
founding
and
running
these
big
factories,
including
those
in
silk
spinning,
and
we
have
seen
merchant
capital
as
the
source
of
most
industrial
investment
later
in
the
period.
But
the
transfer
of
technology
to
big
factories,
both
locally-
and
foreign-owned,
paled
in
importance
before
the
diffusion
of
the
simpler
technologies
such
as
machine-made
yarn
and
synthetic
dyes.
The
spread
of
these
technologies
owed
much
to
two
factors.
First,
they
were
inexpensive
and
required
little
capital,
an
advantage
in
an
capital-scarce
economy.
Second,
their
spread
occurred
with
the
blessings
of
the
European
powers.
Afterali,
their
manufactures
were
being
bought
by
foreign
consumers,
whose
purchases
generated
the
capital
surpluses
that
helped
fuel
subsequent
European
industrial
expansion.
And
finally,
examination
of
technology
transfer
allows
us
entree
into
the
story
of
Ottoman
manufacturing
in
general.
Through
the
examples
offered
here—
of
big
factories,
of
the
silk
industry
and
of
the
simple
technologies—we
begin
to
appreciate
the
wonderful
complexity
of
that
story.
Within
the
environment
furnished
by
global
and
local
forces,
Ottoman
manufacturers
fought
to
retain
markets
and
make
new
ones.
In
some
locations
they
failed.
The
Ankara
mohair
cloth
industry
vanished,
and
so
did
the
textile
empire
of
the
Kayseri
merchants.
But
elsewhere,
and
often,
they
succeeded.
The
vibrancy
of
the
cloth
makers
at
Aleppo,
Diyarbakir,
Arapkir
and
Buldan
point
to
dynamism
in
the
industrial
sector,
a
result
of
Ottoman
producers
aiming
at
domestic
markets.
At
Bursa,
the
silk
industry
continuously
evolved
not
only
to
meet
foreign
demand
but
also
to
clothe
Ottoman
consumers.
Other
export
examples
could
be
enumerated
to
include
the
carpet
makers
or
the
embroiderers
of
Istanbul
and
north
Syria,
but
the
point
seems
clear
enough.
Ottoman
manufacturers
were
adaptive,
creative
and
innovative.
Table of contents
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- PRÉSENTATION
- PREFACE
- I. The Context of Technology Transfer Mechanisms and Obstacles
- II. The Transfer of Low-Level Technology to the Ottoman Empire
- III. Technology Transfer and Factory Establishments in the Ottoman Empire
- IV. Technology Transfer in the Silk Industry of the Ottoman Empire
- V. Concluding Remarks