ABSTRACT
During the mid nineteenth century, as the Ottoman state began to enact its legislative, legal, and bureaucrat reforms known as the Tanzimat, the district of Tokat retained its prosperous base of pre-modern craft industries. This chapter examines how occupational affiliations contributed to notions of wealth, status, and identity in the kaza district. It shows how the various segments of Tokat's society worked in tandem to assure a redistribution of prosperity and trade across the district. Tokat's manufacturing economy has been divided into four main parts. Pre-modern urbanization overviews the history of Tokat as a polity and a center of industry, trade, and commerce. Tokat's notables and copper, examines the metal as a main source of wealth, taxes, and prosperity for many segments of Tokatli society. Textiles and other crafts, looks at the social organization and dynamics of craft industries subsidiary to copper. Transport workers consider the social characteristics of logistics in trade during the later Tanzimat Period.
