A neighborhood in Ottoman Istanbul : fruit vendors and civil servants in the Kasap İlyas Mahalle / Cem Behar
- Author
- Behar, Cem, 1946-
- Published
- Albany : State University of New York Press, 2003.
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (x, 224 pages) : illustrations, map
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- Series
- Language Note
- English.
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: Introduction: The City, the Semt, and the Mahalle -- Ch. 1 Contours of a Local Identity -- Ch. 2 Power and Local Administration in Kasap Ilyas: Tanzimat and After -- Ch. 3 Migration and Urban Integration: The Arapkir Connection -- Ch. 4 "End of Empire": Portrait of a Neighborhood Community in the Late Nineteenth Century.
- 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
- Subject(s)
- HISTORY—General
- Economic history
- Manners and customs
- Kasap İlyas Mahalle (Istanbul, Turkey)
- Istanbul (Turkey)—Social life and customs
- Istanbul (Turkey)—Economic conditions
- Kasap İlyas Mahalle (İstanbul, Turquie)
- *Istanbul (Turquie)—Mœurs et coutumes
- *Istanbul (Turquie)—Conditions économiques
- Turkey—Istanbul
- Turkey—Istanbul—Kasap İlyas Mahalle
- Genre(s)
- ISBN
- 141752409X (electronic bk.)
9781417524099 (electronic bk.)
079145682X (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780791456828 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0791456811 (alk. paper)
9780791456811 (alk. paper)
9780791487037
0791487032 - Digital File Characteristics
- data file
- Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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