Wealth in the Ottoman and post-Ottoman Balkans: a socio-economic history - 52

This title demonstrates the economic and social transformations wrought by the Ottoman Empires withdrawal from the Balkans.

As a new middle class emerged, and the power of religion faded, Ottoman social and economic societal norms changed rapidly across the region.

The book shows how markers of wealth accumulation and poverty were socially defined across the region, and the ways wealth was experienced reveal the relationships between the state, economy, society, modernity, and national identity in the context of Balkan, Ottoman, and European development.