Selim III, Social Control and Policing in Istanbul at the End of the Eighteenth Century: Between Crisis and Order (Ottoman Empire and its Heritage: Politics, Society and Economy, 56)

Basaran, Betül:

ISBN 10: 900424607X / ISBN 13: 9789004246072

Published by BRILL ACADEMIC PUB, 2014

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XIV, 282 Pp Hardcover, original cardboard binding in very good condition, like new inside and out. Please note our pictures. Hardcover, original Pappeinband in sehr gutem Zustand, innen wie außen wie neu. Bitte beachten Sie unsere Bilder. Büro 8 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 590.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Selim III, Social Control and Policing in Istanbul at the End of the Eighteenth Century: Between Crisis and Order (Ottoman Empire and its Heritage: Politics, Society and Economy, 56)
• Publisher: BRILL ACADEMIC PUB
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 900424607X
• ISBN 13: 9789004246072
• Binding: 15.88 cm x 1.91 cm x 23.5 cm
• Condition: Wie neu
• Weight: 590 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Modernes Antiquariat

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Synopsis

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 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”.

About the Author

Betül Başaran, 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.