Sevket Pamuk Livres

Focusing on the monetary history of a vast empire that was pivotal in intercontinental trade from the fourteenth century to the end of World War I, this volume explores various regions, including the Balkans, Anatolia, Syria, Egypt, and the Gulf to the Maghrib. It delves into how monetary developments influenced social and political history, offering significant insights into the empire's economic dynamics. Written by a renowned economic historian, this work is both important and groundbreaking in its field.

A major contribution to Ottoman history, now published in paperback in two volumes.

The book explores the impacts of 19th-century European economic expansion into the Ottoman Empire, analyzing the resulting social, political, and economic changes. It delves into the complexities of this historical interaction, highlighting how European influence reshaped the Ottoman landscape and affected its development. Through detailed examination, it offers insights into the broader implications of colonialism and economic imperialism during this transformative period.

An accessible introduction to the struggle between democracy and authoritarianism in Turkey since the 1980 military coup. Yesim Arat and Sevket Pamuk focus on the mutual distrust between the secular and Islamist groups, shedding new light on democratization processes and the eventual democratic backsliding.

The first comprehensive history of the Turkish economy The population and economy of the area within the present-day borders of Turkey has consistently been among the largest in the developing world, yet there has been no authoritative economic history of Turkey until now. In Uneven Centuries, Şevket Pamuk examines the economic growth and human development of Turkey over the past two hundred years. Taking a comparative global perspective, Pamuk investigates Turkey’s economic history through four periods: the open economy during the nineteenth-century Ottoman era, the transition from empire to nation-state that spanned the two world wars and the Great Depression, the continued protectionism and import-substituting industrialization after World War II, and the neoliberal policies and the opening of the economy after 1980. Making use of indices of GDP per capita, trade, wages, health, and education, Pamuk argues that Turkey’s long-term economic trends cannot be explained only by immediate causes such as economic policies, rates of investment, productivity growth, and structural change. Uneven Centuries offers a deeper analysis of the essential forces underlying Turkey’s development—its institutions and their evolution—to make better sense of the country’s unique history and to provide important insights into the patterns of growth in developing countries during the past two centuries.