Selim III, Social Control and Policing in Istanbul at the End of the Eighteenth Century

Between Crisis and Order

AvBetül Başaran

Inbunden, Engelska, 2014

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Beskrivning

In Selim III, Social Order and Policing in Istanbul at the End of the Eighteenth Century Betül Başaran examines Sultan Selim III’s social control and surveillance measures. Drawing mainly from a set of inspection registers and censuses from the 1790s, as well as court records she paints a colorful picture of the city’s residents and artisans. She argues that the period constitutes the beginnings of large-scale population control and crisis management and urges us to think about the Ottoman Empire as a polity that was increasingly becoming a “statistical” state, along with its contemporaries in Europe, and to go beyond mechanistic models of borrowing that focus primarily on military reform and European influence in our discussions of Ottoman reform and “modernity”.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2014-07-14
Mått:155 x 235 x 21 mm
Vikt:589 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Ottoman Empire and its Heritage
Antal sidor:282
Förlag:Brill
ISBN:9789004246072

Utforska kategorier

Europas historia inom Historia och arkeologi

Mer om författaren

Betül Başaran, Ph.D. (2006), University of Chicago, is Associate Professor at St. Mary's College of Maryland. She has published articles on Istanbul's population and artisans during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

Recensioner i media

'Başaran’s is an important contribution to studies focusing on the later part of the eighteenth century, especially in terms of putting into perspective the social reforms of a ruler that is much more documented for his military reforms'.Leyla Kayhan Elbirlik in The Journal of Ottoman Studies, XLVII (2016), 433-437

Innehållsförteckning

ContentsList of TablesList of MapsList of IllustrationsNote on transliteration and translation AbbreviationsAcknowledgmentsChapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: The Eighteenth Century: Defining the CrisisChapter 3: Wartime Crisis and the New Order: The Policing of Istanbul, 1789–92Chapter 4: The Inspection Registers of 1791–93Chapter 5: “We Have No Security”: Public Order in the NeighborhoodChapter 6: Concluding RemarksBibliography IndexAppendix 4.1: List of shops and trades in the southern Golden Horn in 1792 according to A. DVN. 899–LAppendix 4.2: Distribution of inns according to location in the southern Golden Horn according to A. DVN. 899–L