Explorations: Ships of Fortune: Istanbul - Why an industrial revolution did not occur in the Ottoman Empire

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Description: Background to the Channel 4 Millennium Series ‘The Day the World Took Off’. With thanks to Windfall Films.
In Istanbul, Alan Macfarlane describes some of the natural resource shortages which were among the reasons for the lack of industrial development in the Ottoman Empire.
 
Created: 2018-03-09 09:01
Collection: A History of the World (The Day the World Took Off)
Publisher: University of Cambridge
Copyright: Prof Alan Macfarlane
Language: eng (English)
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