Front cover; Author; Endorsement; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Abbreviations; Glossary; List of Contributors; Introduction; Part I Wealth, Property, and Social Status; 1. Women, Wealth, and the State in Greece (1750 -- 1860); 2. People of Wealth and Influence: The Case of the Khadzhitoshev Family (1770s -- 1870s); 3. Defining the Patrimony: Name, Lineage and Inheritance Practices (Wallachia at the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century; Part II Institutional and Social Practices; 4. Reconstruction, Resettlement, and Economic Revitalization in pre-Tanzimat Ottoman Bulgaria 5. The Poor Men of Christ and their Leaders: Wealth and Poverty within the Christian Orthodox Clergy of the Ottoman Empire (Eighteenth -- Nineteenth Century)6. Health as Wealth: Commodification of Doctor -- Patient Relations in the Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Balkans; 7. From "the Sick", "the Blind", and "the Crippled" to the Nation of "Toiling People": Visions of the Poor in the Late Ottoman Empire and the Early Turkish Republic; Part III Transnational Networks and Exchanges; 8. The Rich in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Arbanasi: Networks of Prosperity 9. Redrawing State Borders: Prosperity to Poverty in Ottoman and post-Ottoman Bitola (Monastir)10. War, Dynasty, and Philanthropy: Kavala and the Khedivial Relief Campaign during the Balkan Wars (1912 -- 13); Part IV Discourses of Social and National Values; 11. National Interpretations of Misfortune and Welfare: the Paradigm of the Intellectuals of the Bulgarian Revival; 12. "People's Welfare" as National Security: Serbian Liberals and Discourses on Economic Development in pre-Independence Serbia (1850s -- 1870s) 13. Ricchi e Poveri: Images of Wealth and Poverty in Nineteenth-Century Bulgarian LiteratureConclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index