Ellen M Nye
Biographic Data
| ID | 6701442 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ellen M Nye |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ellen M |
| FAMILY NAME | Nye |
| SIGNATURE | NYE E M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Purdue University West Lafayette |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5793-3213 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Money on Trial: Performances of Value and Authority in Ottoman Istanbul during the Age of Global Silver
Flows of Spanish American silver have long been bound up in narratives of early modernity, the growth of globalization, and the coming of capitalism. This article reconsiders these narratives through a trial held in seventeenth-century Ottoman Istanbul of imported lion dollar coins that were suspected of being false. The trial shows the different ways groups—both within and outside the state and transacting on different scales from local to inter…
The Bill of Exchange, Poliçe , and Financial Instruments Between Europe and the Ottoman Empire in the Seventeenth Century
This article examines the development of a financial instrument, the poliçe, through interactions with interstate finance in the seventeenth-century Ottoman Empire. In doing so, it highlights the dynamism of Ottoman finance and the importance of interactions between European and Middle Eastern finance—a perspective missed by a long tradition in economic history of drawing comparisons between the European bill of exchange and the Middle Eastern su…
Plurality, Entanglements, and Empire in Early Modern Monetary Relations
Empires of Obligation: Law, Money, and Debt between England and the Ottoman Empire, 1670–1720
During the 1690s, both the English and Ottoman states developed new institutions for longer-term borrowing and reformed their imperial monetary systems. These synchronous but divergent developments present a puzzle that has not been answered by rigidly separate English and Ottoman historiographies. “Empires of Obligation” follows merchants trading between England and the Ottoman Empire to understand how both states responded differently to the ch…
A Bank of Trust”: Legal Practices of Ottoman Finance Between Empires
How agreements were maintained and enforced beyond state-backed systems is among the least understood aspects of Ottoman legal history. This article reveals how merchants’ engagement with Ottoman state finance intertwined private and state-backed legal practices through a letter-book written entirely in Ottoman Turkish belonging to a seventeenth-century English merchant, Peter Whitcomb, who provided financial services to Ottoman officials across …
A Bank of Trust”: Legal Practices of Ottoman Finance Between Empires
How agreements were maintained and enforced beyond state-backed systems is among the least understood aspects of Ottoman legal history. This article reveals how merchants’ engagement with Ottoman state finance intertwined private and state-backed legal practices through a letter-book written entirely in Ottoman Turkish belonging to a seventeenth-century English merchant, Peter Whitcomb, who provided financial services to Ottoman officials across …
A Bank of Trust”: Legal Practices of Ottoman Finance Between Empires
How agreements were maintained and enforced beyond state-backed systems is among the least understood aspects of Ottoman legal history. This article reveals how merchants’ engagement with Ottoman state finance intertwined private and state-backed legal practices through a letter-book written entirely in Ottoman Turkish belonging to a seventeenth-century English merchant, Peter Whitcomb, who provided financial services to Ottoman officials across …
Empires of Obligation: Law, Money, and Debt between England and the Ottoman Empire, 1670–1720
During the 1690s, both the English and Ottoman states developed new institutions for longer-term borrowing and reformed their imperial monetary systems. These synchronous but divergent developments present a puzzle that has not been answered by rigidly separate English and Ottoman historiographies. “Empires of Obligation” follows merchants trading between England and the Ottoman Empire to understand how both states responded differently to the ch…
The Bill of Exchange, Poliçe , and Financial Instruments Between Europe and the Ottoman Empire in the Seventeenth Century
This article examines the development of a financial instrument, the poliçe, through interactions with interstate finance in the seventeenth-century Ottoman Empire. In doing so, it highlights the dynamism of Ottoman finance and the importance of interactions between European and Middle Eastern finance—a perspective missed by a long tradition in economic history of drawing comparisons between the European bill of exchange and the Middle Eastern su…
Plurality, Entanglements, and Empire in Early Modern Monetary Relations
Money on Trial: Performances of Value and Authority in Ottoman Istanbul during the Age of Global Silver
Flows of Spanish American silver have long been bound up in narratives of early modernity, the growth of globalization, and the coming of capitalism. This article reconsiders these narratives through a trial held in seventeenth-century Ottoman Istanbul of imported lion dollar coins that were suspected of being false. The trial shows the different ways groups—both within and outside the state and transacting on different scales from local to inter…
Historical Economic and Social Studies (4 works) · Ottoman empire (3 works) · Empire (2 works) · Historical Economic and Legal Thought (2 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works) · Islamic Studies and History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works)