Whether the ‘democratization’ of consumption during the early modern period was specifically a characteristic of the European economic shift or observable in other parts of the world remains a central question in understanding the early roots of consumerism, as well as explaining pre-industrial growth and divergence. However, the scarcity of quantitative evidence from the non-Western world limits our ability to make comparisons and grasp the nature of changes that occurred in the material environment. Based on a sample of 380 probate inventories from the Ottoman town of Üsküdar, this paper examines the change in possession of domestic goods from 1700 to 1850. It reveals that, from the 1760s onwards, ordinary Ottomans in the town, who were neither wealthier nor better positioned in the social hierarchy compared with their ancestors in 1700, owned a greater quantity and variety of domestic goods. As a result, they enjoyed richer and more elaborate domestic interiors. The findings strongly suggest that democratization of consumer goods, a hallmark of the early modern consumer revolutions in Europe, was experienced in the Ottoman town of Üsküdar during the second half of the eighteenth century.

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奥斯曼帝国发生过“消费者革命”吗？

现代早期消费的“民主化”是否是欧洲经济转型的特有特征，或者在世界其他地区也可以观察到，这仍然是理解消费主义早期根源以及解释前工业化增长和经济增长的核心问题。分歧。然而，来自非西方世界的定量证据的缺乏限制了我们进行比较和掌握物质环境中发生的变化的本质的能力。本文以奥斯曼帝国于斯屈达尔镇的 380 份遗嘱认证清单为样本，考察了 1700 年至 1850 年间国内物品拥有情况的变化。研究表明，从 1760 年代起，该镇的普通奥斯曼人既不富裕，也不富裕。与1700年的祖先相比，他们在社会等级中的地位更高，拥有更多数量和种类的国内商品。结果，他们享受到了更丰富、更精致的家庭内饰。研究结果强烈表明，十八世纪下半叶，奥斯曼帝国的于斯屈达尔镇经历了消费品民主化，这是欧洲早期现代消费革命的标志。