Selim III, Social Control and Policing in Istanbul at the End of the Eighteenth Century: Between Crisis and Order: 56 (Ottoman Empire and Its Heritage) - Hardcover

Başaran, Betül

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 900424607X ISBN 13: 9789004246072

Publisher: Brill, 2014

Synopsis

In Selim III, Social Order and Policing in Istanbul at the End of the Eighteenth Century Betul Basaran examines Selim III's social control measures and Istanbul's dynamic population, urging us to go beyond mechanistic models of borrowing that focus primarily on European influence in discussions of Ottoman modernity.

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Review:

'Başaran's is an important contribution to studies focusing on the later part of the eighteenth century, especially in terms of putting into perspective the social reforms of a ruler that is much more documented for his military reforms'.

Leyla Kayhan Elbirlik in The Journal of Ottoman Studies, XLVII (2016), 433-437

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Brill
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 900424607X
• ISBN 13: 9789004246072
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 296