Table Of ContentEvguenia Davidova is Associate Professor of International Studies at
PortlandStateUniversity,Oregon.Shehaspublishedextensivelyonthe
nineteenth-century socio-economic history of the Ottoman Balkans.
Davidova is the author of Balkan Transitions to Modernity and Nation-
States: Through the Eyes of Three Generations of Merchants (1780s–1890s)
(2013).
“This collection of articles on wealth and poverty in the late Ottoman
and early post-Ottoman Balkans offers a refreshingly multifaceted and
oftenintriguingpanoramaofBalkansocietyinacrucialeraoftransition.
Covering most of the Balkan countries, the volume pays attention not
onlytoeconomicandsocialfactors,butalsotoinstitutionalandcultural
aspectsofwealthandpoverty,dealingwithoftenunexploredbuthighly
relevant case studies. Written by a group of renowned historians of
the Balkans, the book represents a thought-provoking addition to
mainstream Balkan historiography on the topic.”
Raymond Detrez, University of Ghent
“This volume is a truly original intervention into both Balkan and
Ottoman history. Dispensing with the tired old frame of nationalism,
itrepeatedlycrosseslocal,regional,nationalandimperialboundariesto
bring us a set of deeply researched articles on wealth and poverty from
Athens to Istanbul, and many places in between, during the long and
dramaticnineteenthcentury.Theperspectivesarefreshandtheattention
to locales which are usually ignored in grand narratives is very
welcome.”
Molly Greene, Princeton University
WEALTH IN
THE OTTOMAN
AND POST-
OTTOMAN
BALKANS
A Socio-Economic History
Edited by
E D
VGUENIA AVIDOVA
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DaliborJovanovski,EfiKanner,EleonoraNaxidou,EvelinaRazhdavichka-Kiessling,
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CONTENTS
List of Abbreviations viii
Glossary x
List of Contributors xii
Introduction 1
Evguenia Davidova
Part I Wealth, Property, and Social Status
1. Women, Wealth, and the State in Greece (1750–1860) 9
Evdoxios Doxiadis
2. People of Wealth and Influence: the Case of the
Khadzhitoshev Family (1770s–1870s) 30
Evelina Razhdavichka-Kiessling
3. Defining the Patrimony: Name, Lineage and Inheritance
Practices (Wallachia at the Beginning of the
Nineteenth Century) 50
Andreea-Roxana Iancu
Part II Institutional and Social Practices
4. Reconstruction, Resettlement, and Economic
Revitalization in pre-Tanzimat Ottoman Bulgaria 71
Andrew Robarts
vi WEALTHINTHEOTTOMAN ANDPOST-OTTOMANBALKANS
5. The Poor Men of Christ and their Leaders: Wealth
and Poverty within the Christian Orthodox Clergy of the
Ottoman Empire (Eighteenth–Nineteenth Century) 85
Dimitris Stamatopoulos
6. Health as Wealth: Commodification of Doctor–Patient
Relations in the Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Balkans 102
Evguenia Davidova
7. From “the Sick”, “the Blind”, and “the Crippled” to the
Nation of “Toiling People”: Visions of the Poor in the
Late Ottoman Empire and the Early Turkish Republic 117
Efi Kanner
Part III Transnational Networks and Exchanges
8. The Rich in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century
Arbanasi: Networks of Prosperity 139
Gergana Georgieva
9. Redrawing State Borders: Prosperity to Poverty in
Ottoman and post-Ottoman Bitola (Monastir) 152
Dalibor Jovanovski
10. War, Dynasty, and Philanthropy: Kavala and the
Khedivial Relief Campaign during the Balkan Wars
(1912–13) 170
Eyal Ginio
Part IV Discourses of Social and National Values
11. National Interpretations of Misfortune and Welfare:
the Paradigm of the Intellectuals of the
Bulgarian Revival 189
Eleonora Naxidou
12. “People’s Welfare” as National Security: Serbian Liberals
and Discourses on Economic Development in
pre-Independence Serbia (1850s–1870s) 205
Momir Samardzˇi´c
CONTENTS vii
13. Ricchi e Poveri: Images of Wealth and Poverty in
Nineteenth-Century Bulgarian Literature 229
Nikolay Aretov
Conclusion 250
Evguenia Davidova
Notes 253
Bibliography 295
Index 317
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
a.e. arkhivna edinitsa (archival unit)
AA Antolikos Aste¯r/Astir
AG Arhiva Genealogica˘
AIU Alliance Israe´lite Universelle
AKA AlexandrosKaratheodoresArchive,InstituteforHellenic
Studies, Athens
BAR Biblioteca Academiei Romaˆne
BIA-NBKM Buˇlgarski istoricheski arkhiv, Narodna Biblioteka “Sv.
Kiril i Metodii”
BNF Bibliothe`que Nationale de France
BOA Bas¸bakanlık Osmanlı Ars¸ivi
C.AS. Cevdet Askeriye
C.IKTS. Cevdet Iktisat
C.MTZ Cevdet Eyalet-i Mu¨mtaze
HAT Hatt-ı Hu¨mayun
ML.VRD.TMT.d MaliyeNezaretiVaridatMuhasebesi
Temettuatdefterleri
BS BalkanStudies
DARM DrzhavenArhivnaRepublikaMakedonija,Skopje
dr. drachma
EB EtudesBalkaniques
FO ForeignOffice
g. grosia,grosha,guru¸s
LIST OFABBREVIATIONS ix
GAK GeneralStateArchivesofGreece
Efeteio Civil Law Decisions of the Court of Appeals
ofAthens
Leonidio LeonidioNotarialArchive
Mykonos MykonosNotarialArchive
h. hacı,hadzhi
HMG HanımlaraMahsusGazete
I.A.Y.E. HistoricalArchiveoftheGreekMinistryofForeignAffairs
ICˇ Istorijskicˇasopis
IEEE HistoricalandEthnologicalSocietyofGreece
Mykonos MykonosNotarialArchive
Naxos NaxosNotarialArchive
IJMES InternationalJournalofMiddleEastStudies
IL Indreptarealegii
IP Istoricheskipregled
JEH JournalofEconomicHistory
JESHO JournaloftheEconomicandSocialHistoryoftheOrient
JFH JournalofFamilyHistory
JMGS JournalofModernGreekStudies
k. kuru¸s
LC LegiuireaCaragea
MES MiddleEasternStudies
MH TheMissionaryHerald
NPT NewPerspectivesonTurkey
OM OrienteModerno
ON Opsˇtinskenovine
p. para
RGADA RossiskiiGosudarstvennyiArkhivDrevnykhAktov
RGVIA RossiskiiGosudarstvennyiVoenno-IstoricheskiiArkhiv
RIM Regionalenistoricheskimuze˘i,Gabrovo
SBAN SborniknaBuˇlgarskataAkademianaNaukite
SN Srpskenovine
