Title Selim III, social control and policing in Istanbul at the end of the eighteenth century : between crisis and order / by Betül Başaran.

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Boston : Brill, [2014]

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Description	1 online resource.
	text file
Series	The Ottoman Empire and its Heritage
	Ottoman Empire and its heritage.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	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 -- 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 -- 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.
Summary	In Selim III, Social Order and Policing in Istanbul at the End of the Eighteenth Century Betül 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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Subject	Turkey -- History -- Selim III, 1789-1807.
	Police -- Turkey -- Istanbul -- History -- 18th century.
	Police.
	Turkey -- Istanbul.
	History.
Chronological Term	18th century
Subject	Internal security -- Turkey -- Istanbul -- History -- 18th century.
	Internal security.
	Istanbul (Turkey) -- Social life and customs -- 18th century.
Chronological Term	1700-1807
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History.
	Electronic books.
Subject	Police.
Other Form:	Print version: Başaran, Betül. Selim III, social control and policing in Istanbul at the end of the eighteenth century. 9789004246072 900424607X (DLC) 2014014944
ISBN	9004274553 (electronic book)
	9789004274556 (electronic book)
	9789004246072 (hardback ; alkaline paper)
	900424607X (hardback ; alkaline paper)

Title Selim III, social control and policing in Istanbul at the end of the eighteenth century : between crisis and order / by Betül Başaran.

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