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UNINA9910458619903321 |
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Başaran Betül |
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Selim III, social control and policing in Istanbul at the end of the eighteenth century : between crisis and order / / Betül Basaran |
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Leiden, Netherlands : , : Brill, , 2014 |
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©2014 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (295 p.) |
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Collana |
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Ottoman Empire and its Heritage, , 1380-6076 ; ; Volume 56 |
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Soggetti |
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Police - Turkey - Istanbul - History - 18th century |
Internal security - Turkey - Istanbul - History - 18th century |
Electronic books. |
Turkey History Selim III, 1789-1807 |
Istanbul (Turkey) Social life and customs 18th century |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- The Eighteenth Century: Defining the Crisis -- Wartime Crisis and the New Order: The Policing of Istanbul, 1789–92 -- The Inspection Registers of 1791–93 -- “We Have No Security”: Public Order in the Neighborhood -- Concluding Remarks -- Appendix 4.1: List of shops and trades in the southern Golden Horn in 1792 -- Appendix 4.2: Distribution of inns according to location in the southern Golden Horn -- Bibliography -- Index. |
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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 1790's, 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 |
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