The city in the Ottoman empire : migration and the making of urban modernity / / edited by Ulrike Freitag. [et al.]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910785677003321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2011
• ISBN: 1-136-93488-X; 1-136-93489-8; 1-283-03720-3; 9786613037206; 0-203-84652-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (282 p.)
• Collana: SOAS/Routledge studies on the Middle East ; ; 14
• Altri autori (Persone): FreitagUlrike
• Disciplina: 307.760956/09034; 307.76095609034
• Soggetti: Urbanization - Turkey - History - 19th century; Turkey Emigration and immigration History 19th century; Turkey History 19th century; Turkey History Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Tables; Contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 Migration and the making of urban modernity in the Ottoman Empire and beyond; 2 The Ottoman urban governance of migrations and the stakes of modernity; 3 The Ottoman City Council and the beginning of the modernisation of urban space in the Balkans; 4 Foreigners in town: Urban immigration and local attitudes in the Romanian Principalities in the mid-nineteenth century; 5 Mobility and governance in early modern Marseilles; 6 Pearl towns and early oil cities: Migration and integration in the Arab coast of the Persian Gulf *7 Migration and the state: On Ottoman regulations concerning migration since the age of Mahmud II; 8 Governance in transition: Competing immigrant networks in early nineteenth-century Egypt; 9 Armenian labour migration to Istanbul and the migration crisis of the 1890s; 10 Immigration into the Ottoman territory: The case of Salonica in the late nineteenth century; 11 Migrant ; builders and craftsmen in the founding phase of modern Athens*; 12 The city and the stranger: Jeddah in the nineteenth century13 'I would rather be in the Orient': European lower class immigrants into the Ottoman lands; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The nexus of urban governance and human migration was a crucial feature in the modernisation of cities in the Ottoman Empire of the nineteenth century. This book connects these two concepts to examine the Ottoman city as a destination of human migration, throwing new light on the question of conviviality and cosmopolitanism from the perspective of the legal, administrative and political frameworks within which these occur.Focusing on groups of migrants with various ethnic, regional and professional backgrounds, the book juxtaposes the trajectories of these people with attempts