Bread from the lion's mouth : artisans struggling for a livelihood in Ottoman cities / edited by Suraiya Faroqhi.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Faroqhi, Suraiya, 1941- editor.

Series:

International studies in social history ; v. 25.

International studies in social history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Material culture--Turkey--History.

Material culture.

Artisans--Turkey--History.

Artisans.

History.

Turkey--History--Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918.

Turkey.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xv, 349 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2015.

Contents:

Introduction : once again, Ottoman artisans

PART I. ARTISANS OVER THE COURSE OF TIME

Tracing esnaf in late fifteenth-century Bursa court records / İklil Erefe Selçuk

The art of the potter in Ottoman Hungary / Geza David and Ibolya Gerelyes

Damascene artisans around 1700 / Colette Establet

Mapping Istanbul's hammams of 1752 and their employees / Nina Ergin

Surviving in difficult times : the cotton and silk trades in Bursa around 1800 / Suraiya Faroqhi

The shoe guilds of Istanbul in the early nineteenth century : a case study / Nalan Turna

PART II. INTRA-GUILD PROBLEMS

Blurred boundaries between soldiers and civilians : artisan Janissaries in seventeenth-century Istanbul / Gülay Yılmaz

Rich artisans and poor merchants? : a critical look at the supposed egalitarianism in Ottoman guilds / Eunjeong Yi

Gedik : what's in a name? / Seven Ağır and Onur Yıldırım

Punishment, repression and violence in the marketplace : Istanbul, 1730-1840 / Engin Deniz Akarlı

PART III. ARTISANS CONFRONTING THE MODERNIZING STATE

Some observations on Istanbul's artisans during the reign of Selim III (1789-1808) / Betül Başaran and Cengiz Kırlı

Out of the frying pan, into the fire : protest, the state, and the end of the guilds in Egypt / John Chalcraft.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781782385585

1782385584

OCLC:

890462497