A Neighborhood in Ottoman Istanbul: Fruit Vendors and Civil Servants in the Kasap Iulyas Mahalle
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 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.
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A Neighborhood in Ottoman Istanbul: Fruit Vendors and Civil Servants in the Kasap Iulyas Mahalle
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 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.
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A Neighborhood in Ottoman Istanbul: Fruit Vendors and Civil Servants in the Kasap Iulyas Mahalle
A Neighborhood in Ottoman Istanbul: Fruit Vendors and Civil Servants in the Kasap Iulyas Mahalle
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780791487037 |
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Publisher: | State University of New York Press |
Publication date: | 09/18/2009 |
Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
Format: | eBook |
File size: | 2 MB |
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