Studies on Ottoman society and culture, 16th-18th centuries
By: edited by Rhoads Murphey.
Contributors: Murphey, Rhoads, 1949-
Series: Variorum collected studies series -- CS880
Publisher: Ashgate Pub. Co.
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Burlington, VT
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780754659310
Subjects: Turkey -- Social life and customs -- 16th century.; Turkey -- Social life and customs -- 17th century.; Turkey -- Social life and customs -- 18th century.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Cultural relations and exchange of ideas; title: Ottoman medicine and transculturalism from the 16th through the 18th century; title: Westernisation in the 18th-century Ottoman empire: how far, how fast?; title: Bigots or informed observers? a periodization of pre-colonial English and European writing on the Middle East; title: The Ottoman attitude towards the adoption of western technology: the role of the efrenci technicians in civil and military applications; title: Urban living; title: Provisioning Istanbul: the state and subsistence in the early modern Middle East; title: Communal living in Ottoman Istanbul: searching for the foundations of an urban tradition; title: Disaster relief practices in 17th-century Istanbul: a brief overview of organizational aspects of urban renewal projects undertaken in the aftermath of catastrophic fires; title: The city of Belgrade in the early years of Serbian self-rule and dual administration with the Ottomans: vignettes from Rashid's history illuminating the transformation of a Muslim metropolis of the Balkans; title: Population groups. Population movements. Production and organisation of labour; title: Some features of nomadism in the Ottoman empire: a survey based on tribal census and judicial appeal documentation from archives in Istanbul and Damascus; title: Ottoman census methods in the mid-16th century: three case histories; title: Conceptual and practical uses of the "summary" (idjmal) register in 16th-century Ottoman administrative practice; title: Population movements and labour mobility in Balkan contexts: a glance at post-1600 Ottoman social realities; title: Silver production in Rumelia according to an official Ottoman report circa 1600; title: Tobacco cultivation in northern Syria and conditions of its marketing and distribution in the late 18th century; title: The construction of a fortress at Mosul in 1631: a case study of an important facet of Ottoman military expenditure; title: Index.