How did the various East/West India companies effect trade in the Mediterranean and the economies of the Ottomans?

by Stickmanbren

Doing a paper on the Ottomans and their economy just seems to fall apart after the 17th century, I'm guessing more global trade but how much did the new world and Asian goods affect the Ottomans?

ahump

Not an answer. But I will recommend Prasannan Parthasarathi's. Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not: Global Economic Divergence, 1600–1850. Cambridge University Press

Some sections talk about the Indian cotton trade and it's effect on Ottomans.