Selim III, Social Control and Policing in Istanbul at the End of the Eighteenth Century : Between Crisis and Order.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (295 pages)
- The Ottoman Empire and Its Heritage Series ; v.56 .
- The Ottoman Empire and Its Heritage Series .
Intro -- Selim III, Social Control and Policing in Istanbul at the End of the Eighteenth Century -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Tables -- List of Maps -- List of Illustrations -- Note on Transliteration and Translation -- Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Eighteenth Century: Defining the Crisis -- Rebellion, Migration and Fear of Crime in the "Well-Protected" City -- Migration and Public Order -- Customary State Policies and Mechanisms of Control -- Maintaining Order in the City: Urban Police and Law Enforcement Agencies -- Istanbul's Economy and Population at the End of the Eighteenth Century -- Natural Disasters and Epidemics -- Provisioning the City -- 3 Wartime Crisis and the New Order: The Policing of Istanbul, 1789-92 -- Accession of the "Reformist" Sultan -- Defining the New Order -- Life in Istanbul and the Demand for Order -- "A Sweet Fountain is Always Crowded" -- Investigations and Surveillance of the Population -- Legal Theory and the Justice of the Sultan -- 4 The Inspection Registers of 1791-93 -- Observations on the Kefalet Registers -- Exploration of the Register Using Correspondence Analysis -- Economic Activity in Intra Muros Istanbul According to the Register -- Janissaries, Immigrant Networks, and the Inspectors -- About Coffeehouses and Janissaries -- Ethnic and Religious Divisions in the Marketplace according to the Inspection Register of 1792 -- From Mechulü'l-Ahval to Ma?lumü'l-Ahval: Kefalet in the Registers -- 5 "We Have No Security": Public Order in the Neighborhood -- Approaching the Court Records -- Public Order in the Neighborhood -- The Courts and Their Proceedings -- Divan-i Hümayun as Court of Appeal -- Public Order in the Court Records -- 6 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.
In Selim III, Social Order and Policing in Istanbul at the End of the Eighteenth Century Betül Başaran 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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