Forging urban solidarities Ottoman Aleppo 1640-1700

Wilkins, Charles L.

ISBN 10: 9004169075 / ISBN 13: 9789004169074

Published by Brill, 2010

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cloth, 323 pp. Series: The Ottoman Empire and its Heritage, volume 41 Perfect copy.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Forging urban solidarities Ottoman Aleppo 1640-1700
• Publisher: Brill
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004169075
• ISBN 13: 9789004169074
• Binding: Hardcover
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Synopsis

As with most empires of the Early Modern period (1500-1800), the Ottomans mobilized human and material resources for warmaking on a scale that was vast and unprecedented. The present volume examines the direct and indirect effects of warmaking on Aleppo, an important Ottoman administrative center and Levantine trading city, as the empire engaged in multiple conflicts, including wars with Venice (1644-69), Poland (1672-76) and the Hapsburg Empire (1663-64, 1683-99). Focusing on urban institutions such as residential quarters, military garrisons, and guilds, and using intensively the records of local law courts, the study explores how the routinization of direct imperial taxes and the assimilation of soldiers to civilian life challenged - and reshaped - the city's social and political order.

About the Author

Charles L. Wilkins, Ph.D. (2006) in History and Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University, is Assistant Professor of History at Wake Forest University. He specializes in the history of the Arab Provinces of the Ottoman Empire.