Explorations: Ships of Fortune: Istanbul - The Commercial sophistication of the Ottoman Empire
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Background to the Channel 4 Millennium Series ‘The Day the World Took Off’. With thanks to Windfall Films.
In the Grand Bazaar in Istanbul, Alan Macfarlane explains the sophisticated marketing system in the Ottoman Empire and reflects on the factors which made it difficult to take this towards a modern industrial civilization. |
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| Created: | 2018-03-09 09:05 |
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| 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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