The Mediterranean Response to Globalization Before 1950

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ISBN: 9780415224253 | 041522425X
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Copyright: 6/5/2000

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Papers presented at a conference held at the Old Ottoman Mint, Istanbul, Turkey, in June 1998. Guiding focus was to better understand the globalization challenges and opportunities that the Mediterranean faced prior to 1950 and how the region responded to them. DLC: Mediterranean Region--Economic conditions.

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List of contributors

Acknowledgments

xvii

PART 1 Introduction

(14)

Globalization challenge and economic response in the Mediterranean

(12)

Sevket Pamuk

Jeffrey G. Williamson

PART 2 Long-run growth: a comparative assessment

(92)

How poor was the European periphery before 1850? The Mediterranean vs Scandinavia

(28)

Jaime Reis

Real wages and relative factor prices around the Mediterranean, 1500--1940

(31)

Jeffrey G. Williamson

European economic development: the core and the southern periphery, 1870--1910

(31)

James Foreman-Peck

Pedro Lains

PART 3 Long-run growth: country studies

107

(50)

Growth and retardation in Ottoman Macedonia, 1880--1910

109

(25)

Ahmet O. Akarli

The Choice of technology: Spanish, Italian, British and US cotton mills compared, 1830--60

134

(23)

Joan Ramon Roses

PART 4 Trade, transport and domestic production in the century before World War II

157

(110)

Specialization in the international market for olive oil before World War II

159

(40)

Ramon Ramon-Munoz

International competition and the development of the dried-fruit industry, 1880--1930

199

(34)

Jose Morilla Critz

Alan L. Olmstead

Paul W. Rhode

International shipping in the eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea: Istanbul as a maritime centre, 1870--1910

233

(34)

Gelina Harlaftis

Vassilis Kardasis

PART 5 Pre-1914 policy choices and the political economy of growth

267

(52)

Much Ado About Nothing? Italian trade policy in the late nineteenth century

269

(28)

Giovanni Federico

Kevin H. O'Rourke

What slowed down the mass emigration from Spain before World War II? A comparison with Italy

297

(22)

Blanca Sanchez-Alonso

PART 6 Interwar policy choices and the political economy of growth

319

(42)

Intervention during the Great Depression: another look at Turkish experience

321

(19)

Sevket Pamuk

Egyptian commodity markets in the age of economic liberalism

340

(21)

Tarik M. Yousef

PART 7 Twentieth-century Palestine

361

(20)

Economic growth and external trade in Mandatory Palestine: A special Mediterranean case

363

(18)

Jacob Metzer

Bibliography

381

(36)

Index

417

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The Mediterranean Response to Globalization Before 1950

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