James Grehan is Professor of History at Portland State University. His previous book is Twilight of the Saints: Everyday Religion in Ottoman Syria and Palestine (2014).

"A model of social history, Empire of Manners narrates the Ottoman Empire as a look between individuals, a puff of smoke, a wisp of facial hair, an insult, a pair of shoes. Only as subtle and careful a reader as James Grehan could render this revealing history of the crooked lines between manners and war with such texture and clarity."—Alan Mikhail, Yale University "At last, a book on Ottoman manners that stresses their utmost importance in a multi-ethnic society acutely attuned to honor, hierarchy, and status. For James Grehan, the seduction of urban civility was continually challenged over the eighteenth century by the out-of-control paramilitary context of hastily assembled countryside militias who swarmed the cities."—Virginia Aksan, McMaster University

James Grehan is Professor of History at Portland State University. His previous book is Twilight of the Saints: Everyday Religion in Ottoman Syria and Palestine (2014).

"A model of social history, Empire of Manners narrates the Ottoman Empire as a look between individuals, a puff of smoke, a wisp of facial hair, an insult, a pair of shoes. Only as subtle and careful a reader as James Grehan could render this revealing history of the crooked lines between manners and war with such texture and clarity."—Alan Mikhail, Yale University "At last, a book on Ottoman manners that stresses their utmost importance in a multi-ethnic society acutely attuned to honor, hierarchy, and status. For James Grehan, the seduction of urban civility was continually challenged over the eighteenth century by the out-of-control paramilitary context of hastily assembled countryside militias who swarmed the cities."—Virginia Aksan, McMaster University

James Grehan is Professor of History at Portland State University. His previous book is Twilight of the Saints: Everyday Religion in Ottoman Syria and Palestine (2014).

"A model of social history, Empire of Manners narrates the Ottoman Empire as a look between individuals, a puff of smoke, a wisp of facial hair, an insult, a pair of shoes. Only as subtle and careful a reader as James Grehan could render this revealing history of the crooked lines between manners and war with such texture and clarity."—Alan Mikhail, Yale University "At last, a book on Ottoman manners that stresses their utmost importance in a multi-ethnic society acutely attuned to honor, hierarchy, and status. For James Grehan, the seduction of urban civility was continually challenged over the eighteenth century by the out-of-control paramilitary context of hastily assembled countryside militias who swarmed the cities."—Virginia Aksan, McMaster University