Oxford University Press

Rise of the Bourgeoisie, Demise of Empire examines the process of Westernization and social change during the 18th and 19th centuries in the Ottoman Empire. Based on empirical analysis of archival documents and historical chronicles, the book questions the prevailing scholarly interpretation that Westernization leads to social change. Rather, it...

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The book discusses the mechanisms by which securities are traded and economic models of asymmetric information, inventory control, and cost-minimizing trading strategies....

Making Marriage Modern explains the emergence a new form of relationship between the sexes-the "e;companionate marriage"e;-- which incorporated birth control and an active sexual role for wives. While displacing Victorian marriage and femininity, the companionate ideal prevailed by the 1940s and set the standard against which second-wave...

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