Selim III, social control and policing in Istanbul at the end of the eighteenth century : between crisis and order / Betül Basaran.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Başaran, Betül, author.

Series:

Ottoman Empire and its heritage ; Volume 56.

Ottoman Empire and its Heritage, 1380-6076 ; Volume 56

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Police--Turkey--Istanbul--History--18th century.

Police.

Internal security--Turkey--Istanbul--History--18th century.

Internal security.

Turkey--History--Selim III, 1789-1807.

Turkey.

Istanbul (Turkey)--Social life and customs--18th century.

Istanbul (Turkey).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (295 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Netherlands : Brill, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 1790's, 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”.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Introduction

The Eighteenth Century: Defining the Crisis

Wartime Crisis and the New Order: The Policing of Istanbul, 1789–92

The Inspection Registers of 1791–93

“We Have No Security”: Public Order in the Neighborhood

Concluding Remarks

Appendix 4.1: List of shops and trades in the southern Golden Horn in 1792

Appendix 4.2: Distribution of inns according to location in the southern Golden Horn

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-27455-3

OCLC:

884646494