Was there a ‘consumer revolution’ in the Ottoman Empire?

IF 1.4 1区 历史学 Q3 ECONOMICS Economic History Review Pub Date : 2023-10-20 DOI:10.1111/ehr.13295
Pınar Ceylan
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Whether the ‘democratization’ of consumption during the early modern period was specifically a characteristic of the European economic shift or observable in other parts of the world remains a central question in understanding the early roots of consumerism, as well as explaining pre-industrial growth and divergence. However, the scarcity of quantitative evidence from the non-Western world limits our ability to make comparisons and grasp the nature of changes that occurred in the material environment. Based on a sample of 380 probate inventories from the Ottoman town of Üsküdar, this paper examines the change in possession of domestic goods from 1700 to 1850. It reveals that, from the 1760s onwards, ordinary Ottomans in the town, who were neither wealthier nor better positioned in the social hierarchy compared with their ancestors in 1700, owned a greater quantity and variety of domestic goods. As a result, they enjoyed richer and more elaborate domestic interiors. The findings strongly suggest that democratization of consumer goods, a hallmark of the early modern consumer revolutions in Europe, was experienced in the Ottoman town of Üsküdar during the second half of the eighteenth century.

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奥斯曼帝国是否发生过 "消费革命"?
近代早期消费的 "民主化 "是欧洲经济转型的具体特征,还是在世界其他地区也可观察到,这仍然是理解消费主义早期根源以及解释工业化前增长和分化的一个核心问题。然而,由于缺乏来自非西方世界的定量证据,限制了我们进行比较和把握物质环境变化性质的能力。本文以奥斯曼帝国于斯库达尔镇的 380 份遗嘱清单为样本,研究了 1700 年至 1850 年间国内物品占有量的变化。研究显示,从 17 世纪 60 年代起,该镇的普通奥斯曼人与 1700 年的祖先相比,既不富裕,在社会等级中的地位也不高,但他们却拥有数量更多和种类更丰富的生活用品。因此,他们享有更丰富、更精致的家庭内部装饰。研究结果有力地表明,作为欧洲现代早期消费革命标志的消费品民主化,在 18 世纪下半叶的奥斯曼 Üsküdar 镇也经历了。
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