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[OTSA] Habits of the Market: Commercial Networks, Regional Finance, and Resistance in the Ottoman Tobacco Trade (c. 1858-1912) with Kaleb Herman Adney and Eyal Ginio
March 17, 2021 @ 9:00 am - 11:00 am PDT
Our W’OTSAp (What is up in Ottoman and Turkish Studies?) meeting in March features the winner of the 2020 Vangelis Kechriotis Memorial Travel Grant, Kaleb Herman Adney (UCLA). Herman’s dissertation project, Habits of the Market: Commercial Networks, Regional Finance, and Resistance in the Ottoman Tobacco Trade (c. 1858-1912), examines the political economy of tobacco in Western Thrace and Eastern Macedonia during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. During this time, market dynamics provided investment and profit-making opportunities for commercial elites while simultaneously limiting the accessibility and potential benefits of these opportunities for burgeoning communities of merchants and cultivators. A number of legal and political mechanisms stimulated the commercialization of agriculture, contributed to increased personal as well as imperial debt, incentivized smuggling, and shaped social relations amongst regional communities. These factors played a significant role in economic and political behavior and, as such, contributed to creating a culture in late Ottoman Thrace and Macedonia that was engineered for volatility, especially in the forms of illegal commerce and political violence. On Wednesday, March 17, at 12 pm (EST, 9 am PST, 7 pm Istanbul) Herman will talk about his project and receive feedback from Eyal Ginio (Hebrew University of Jerusalem). Erdem Kabadayı (Koç University) will chair the session. You can register to attend this meeting via Zoom, using this link.