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Book Reviews 195 Economic History of Greece (15th –19th centuries), edited by Spyros Asdrachas (2003) is a key publication that should have not been omitted from any research on the economic history of Ottoman or Venetian Greece.2 One may also add that sometimes anachronisms sneak in the text: “hyperinflation” is a very specific concept in economics, and using it, metaphorically, solely to refer to a rapid rise (of unspecified rate) in prices due to currency debasement and/or devaluation does not add anything to the argument. These secondary remarks aside, this publication will hopefully be emulated by collaborating scholars of different disciplines and mark a turn in Ottoman studies towards a meticulous use of the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Ottoman cadastral surveys to carefully map and meaningfully compare social and economic realities in the Ottoman provinces. Socrates D. Petmezas University of Crete Kuneralp, Sinan. Son Dönem Osmanlı Erkân ve Ricali (1839–1922): Prosopografik Rehber. İkinci düzeltilmiş ve ilaveli baskı. Beylerbeyi, Istanbul: İsis, 2003. Pp. xxxv, 127. ISBN 978 428-118-1. Sinan Kuneralp has presented us with a very useful compilation of offices and officeholders in the Ottoman Empire from 1839 to 1922, a handbook for which all Ottomanists should feel extremely grateful. This second edition differs from the first in a small number of ways. First, three additional offices, Belgrad Muhâfızları, Bulgar Eksarhları, and Latin Reaya Vekilleri, were added to those previously covered. Second, birth and death dates and surnames were added to some entries previously lacking them. Third, some mistakes and other information were corrected. As this is a book of lists, there is no thesis, narrative, or interpretation to discuss, so this reviewer will focus mostly on the organization of material and the sources used in the compilation of the lists. The book is intended to answer two types of questions: “Who was the Bitlis Vâli in Temmuz 1884?” and “What post did Hüseyin Fikrî Pasha occupy in Temmuz 1884?” It is divided into three parts: a foreword, which includes a number of appendices; a listing of offices and office holders; and a personal name index. The twenty-five-page “Önsöz” describes the author’s approach, discusses his sources, and includes brief highlights for the main offices—number of office holders, multiple office holders, longest tenure, non-Muslim or foreign office holders, career line origins, etc. The most important source for the appointments that Kuneralp used tion in Greece: the case of Peloponnese, 1715–1821] (Athens: Arsenidis, 1996); Martha Pylia, “Les notables moréotes, fin du XVIIIe début du XIXe siècle: fonctions et comportements” (PhD diss., Université de Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, 2003). 2 Spyros Asdrachas, ed., Hellenike Oikonomike Istoria,15os-19os aiônes [Economic History of Greece, 15th –19th centuries] (Athens: PIOP, 2003). 196 JOTSA 2:1 (2015) was the “Tevcihat” announcements in Takvim-i Vekâyi and, in the intervals when Takvim-i Vekâyi was not published, the announcements printed in other newspapers published in Istanbul. In preparing the lists, Kuneralp noted the difficulty of selecting the date on which the appointment began because there exists three relevant dates for the start of any appointment. First, there is the date of the irade. Second, there is the date of the publication of the irade. Third, there is the date of the appointee actually taking up duties, this sometimes being at least weeks after the date or publication of the appointment (for example, travel to Baghdad could take five to six weeks). Kuneralp also points out that sometimes appointments could be withdrawn before the individual could take up a position, as in the case of Mehmet Rauf Pasha, who was appointed the governor of Yemen in 1875. While he was on a steamer headed to Yemen, he was called back to take up the post of Bahriye Nezareti and did not go to Yemen. Thus, Kuneralp did not list Mehmet Rauf Pasha under Yemen governors. About one-third of the “Önsöz” provides brief highlights for each of the main offices. For example, under Adliye Nâzırları, we learn that between 1868 and 1922, the office changed hands fifty-seven times and...

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