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Mosul and the Free Trade Treaties: The Non-Effects of the Commercial Convention on an Inland Province

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 July 2015

Sarah D. Shields
Sarah D. Shields*
Affiliation:
Williams College, Department of History
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The Commercial Convention of 1838 has often been used as a landmark delimiting the end of Ottoman economic insulation and the beginning of massive influence by foreign powers. Quite recently, Ottoman historians and economists have documented the enormous importance of the Free Trade Treaties, showing that “whereas British manufacturers began to expand their markets in the Ottoman Empire before 1838, the opening of Ottoman primary products to trade with Britain accelerated only after the signing of the Free Trade Treaties” (Pamuk, 1987, p. 29). For the empire as a whole, it seems probable that the Treaties influenced the patterns of international trade.

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New Perspectives on Turkey , Volume 7: Special Issue Title: The 1838 Convention and Its Impact , spring 1992 , pp. 113 - 123
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Copyright © New Perspectives on Turkey 1992

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