Ottoman Encounters with Global Capital

with Coşkun Tuncer

hosted by Taylan Güngör and Michael Talbot

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The period from the 1870s to 1914 was the peak of the nineteenth-century globalisation characterised by increased movement of capital across the world. In this podcast, Coşkun Tuncer discusses his recent book on ‘Sovereign Debt and the International Financial Control: the Middle East and the Balkans, 1870-1914’, the role of banks as intermediaries between the Ottoman government and international financial markets, the Ottoman Public Debt Administration and the cases of sovereign debt in Egypt, Serbia and Greece.

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	Coşkun Tuncer is Lecturer in Modern Economic History at University College London, Department of History. Previously he taught and worked as a researcher at the London School of Economics and the European University Institute. He received his PhD from the London School of Economics in 2011 after completing his BA, MSc and MPhil degrees in Turkey and Greece. His research focuses on the economic and financial history of the Middle East and Southeast Europe, and long-term history of international financial markets. His recent book is entitled Sovereign Debt and the International Financial Control: the Middle East and the Balkans, 1870-1914 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015).
	Taylan Güngör is a doctoral candidate at SOAS in London. His interests are in Medieval and Pre-Modern Eastern Mediterranean trading circles and his research is on trade in Istanbul after 1453.
	Michael Talbot received his PhD from SOAS in 2013 for a thesis on Ottoman-British relations in the eighteenth century, and now lectures and researches on a range of topics in Ottoman history at the University of Greenwich in London.

CREDITS

Episode No. 264
Release Date: 29 August 2016
Recording Location: School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)
Audio Editing by Taylan Güngör

Recorded at SOAS Radio studios. SOAS Radio is an outlet for creative media and talent housed by the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. Run by alumni, current students and staff at the School, including volunteers from like-minded communities, SOAS Radio is dedicated to varied and original programming on world music, culture and current affairs.

Musical Excerpt: Baglamamin Dugumu - Necmiye Ararat and Muzaffer
Bibliography courtesy of Coşkun Tuncer

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