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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Behar, Cem, 1946-

Series:

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Istanbul (Turkey)--History.

Istanbul (Turkey).

Kasap İlyas Mahalle (Istanbul, Turkey).

Istanbul (Turkey)--Social life and customs.

Istanbul (Turkey)--Economic conditions.

Physical Description:

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

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"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

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Preface

The City, The Semt and the Mahalle

The Contours of a Local Identity

Power and Local Administration in Kasap İlyas

Migration and Urban Integration

“End of Empire”

Epilogue

Appendix

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Volumes in SUNY Series in the Social and Economic History of the Middle East

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

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

ISBN:

0-7914-8703-2

1-4175-2409-X

OCLC:

61367703