Browsing by Author "Mahmuzlu, Ekin."

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    Agrarian and commercial change in the Southeastern Black Sea region :|production, ecology, and institutions (1850s-1910s)
    (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2019., 2019.) Mahmuzlu, Ekin.; Kırlı, Cengiz.; Pamuk, Şevket, 1950- .
    This dissertation examines the changes in local agricultural production, when the local market in the Southeastern Black Sea region was being integrated into global markets from the mid-1850s to 1910s. It first examines the structure of agricultural production and commerce by deconstructing each step for every major crop and then captures agrarian and commercial changes at the micro-level. Benefitting from recent developments in economic history - institutional economics and ecological economics - the thesis analyses the causality behind the agrarian and commercial change. The key finding is that although the emergence of capitalism and global markets triggered a series of agrarian and commercial changes at the global level, economic conditions, especially transportation, transaction, capital, and information costs determined the direction and limits of these agrarian and commercial changes in local agriculture and commerce. The dissertation argues that the amplitude and direction of agrarian change were determined by changes in commercial and financial institutions, innovation in transportation and information technologies, and emergence of the agro-industries under the constraint of ecological and climatic conditions. There had been two major agrarian and commercial change periods. In the first period, the longdistance agrarian market formed mostly thanks to innovations in transportation, information technologies lead to agrarian change, especially in tobacco and haricot during mid-1850s-1860s. In the second period, these markets were transformed especially thanks to institutional changes in financial institutions and emergence of agro-industries, which triggered agrarian change in tobacco, hazelnut and grains (1890s-1910).
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    An institutional analysis of the Ottoman shipping sector in the Black Sea Region between 1829 and 1861: merchants and ships
    (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University.Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, 2009., 2009.) Mahmuzlu, Ekin.; Pamuk, Şevket, 1950- .
    The aim the thesis is to analyze thoroughly an exemplary micro-economic sphere in the nineteenth century. To achieve such purpose, I chose to scrutinize the shipping sector in the Anatolian Black Sea between 1830 and1861. Contrary to those of Mediterranean Sea, the Black Sea port-cities never integrated to the world economy with the exception of Trabzon. Therefore, comparing shipping sector in the Black Sea, which transformation diverged in many points, with that of the Mediterranean Sea, the Black Sea constituted a sui generis example with its ships and market structure. Using B.O.A. archive documents, especially maritime certificates, the wooden ship types with the sizes and other physical features are determined. Moreover, the shipping market, including the main ship building sites, the structure and the trends of the market, the partnerships, and the feature of every ship-owners group are analyzed by using economic theory.