A Neighborhood in Ottoman Istanbul Fruit Vendors and Civil Servants in the Kasap I?lyas Mahalle |
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| Author:
| Behar, |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4175-2409-9 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2003 |
| Publisher: | State University of New York Press
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $73.50 |
Book Description:
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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 Iùlyas. Drawing on exceptionally rich historical documentation starting in the early sixteenth century, Cem Behar focuses on how the Kasap Iùlyas mahalle came to mirror some of the overarching issues of the capital city of the Ottoman Empire. Also...
More DescriptionCombining 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 Iùlyas. Drawing on exceptionally rich historical documentation starting in the early sixteenth century, Cem Behar focuses on how the Kasap Iùlyas 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.