Islamic Roots of Capitalism: Egypt, 1760-1840

ISBN-13: 9780815605065 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 340 str.

Peter Gran

Opis

Challenging the ethnocentric notion that a capitalist economy could only be transferred to the peripheral states through contact with Europe, this text argues that the capitalist transformation of the Egyptian economy was begun by Muslim merchants and Mamluk rulers in the 18th century.