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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777438603321

Autore

Behar Cem <1946->

Titolo

A neighborhood in Ottoman Istanbul : fruit vendors and civil servants in the Kasap İlyas Mahalle / / Cem Behar

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany : , : State University of New York Press, , 2003

ISBN

0-7914-8703-2

1-4175-2409-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 224 pages) : illustrations, map

Collana

SUNY series in the social and economic history of the Middle East

Disciplina

949.61/8

Soggetti

Istanbul (Turkey) History

Kasap İlyas Mahalle (Istanbul, Turkey)

Istanbul (Turkey) Social life and customs

Istanbul (Turkey) Economic conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-216) and index.

Sommario/riassunto

"Combining the vivid and colorful detail of a micro-history with a wider historical perspective, this groundbreaking study looks at the urban and social history of a small neighborhood community (a mahalle) of Ottoman Istanbul, the Kasap Ilyas. Drawing on exceptionally rich historical documentation starting in the early sixteenth century. Cem Behar focuses on how the Kasap Ilyas mahalle came to mirror some of the overarching issues of the capital city of the Ottoman Empire. Also considered are other issues central to the historiography of cities, such as rural migration and urban integration of migrants, including avenues for professional integration and the solidarity networks migrants formed, and the role of historical guilds and non-guild labor, the ancestor of the "informal" or "marginal" sector found today in less developed countries."--Jacket