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

Between Crisis and Order
XIV, 282 Pp. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-90-04-24607-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 56, 282 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 584 g

Reihe: The Ottoman Empire and its Heritage

In Selim III, Social Order and Policing in Istanbul at the End of the Eighteenth Century Betül Basaran 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”.

Zielgruppe

Middle/Near Eastern studies centers and academic libraries, history undergraduate and graduate programs with a focus on the Ottoman Empire, all interested in urban studies and modernization, development of modern policing and population control.

Autoren/Hrsg.

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Basaran, Betül

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islamisches Recht
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Geschichte des Islam Geschichte des Islam: Neuzeit
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsgeschichte, Recht der Antike
• Rechtswissenschaften Ausländisches Recht Islamisches Recht
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Regional- & Stadtgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

List of Tables
List of Maps
List of Illustrations
Note on transliteration and translation
Abbreviations
Acknowledgments

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: The Eighteenth Century: Defining the Crisis

Chapter 3: Wartime Crisis and the New Order: The Policing of Istanbul, 1789–92

Chapter 4: The Inspection Registers of 1791–93

Chapter 5: “We Have No Security”: Public Order in the Neighborhood

Chapter 6: Concluding Remarks
Bibliography
Index

Appendix 4.1: List of shops and trades in the southern Golden Horn in 1792 according to A. DVN. 899–L
Appendix 4.2: Distribution of inns according to location in the southern Golden Horn according to A. DVN. 899–L

Über Autor(innen)

Betül Basaran, 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.