A Neighborhood in Ottoman Istanbul
Subtitle: Fruit Vendors and Civil Servants in the Kasap Ilyas Mahalle (Suny Series in the Social and Economic History of the Middle East)
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: March 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780791456828
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history; World history; Social life and customs; Kasap Ilyas Mahalle (Istanbul; History - General History; History; Social History; History: World; ASIA; Kasap çIlyas Mahalle (Istanbul, Turkey); Economic History; Middle East - Turkey; Middle East - General; Economic conditions; Istanbul (Turkey)
Description: "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."--BOOK JACKET.