Bread from the lion's mouth : artisans struggling for a livelihood in Ottoman cities /
The newly awakened interest in the lives of craftspeople in Turkey is highlighted in this collection, which uses archival documents to follow Ottoman artisans from the late 15th century to the beginning of the 20th. The authors examine historical changes in the lives of artisans, focusing on the cra...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Berghahn Books,
2015.
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| Series: | International studies in social history ;
v. 25. |
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| Online Access: | CONNECT CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction : once again, Ottoman artisans / Suraiya Faroqhi
- 1. Tracing esnaf in late fifteenth-century Bursa court records / İklil Selçuk
- 2. History, meet archaeology : the potter's craft in Ottoman Hungary / Géza Dávid and Ibolya Gerelyes
- 3. Damascene artisans around 1700 / Colette Establet
- 4. Mapping Istanbul's hammams of 1752 and their employees / Nina Ergin
- 5. Surviving in difficult times : the cotton and silk trades in Bursa around 1800 / Suraiya Faroqhi
- 6. The shoe guilds of Istanbul in the early nineteenth century : a case study / Nalan Turna
- 7. Blurred boundaries between soldiers and civilians : artisan Janissaries in seventeenth-century Istanbul / Gülay Yılmaz Diko
- 8. Rich artisans and poor merchants? : A critical look at the supposed egalitarianism in Ottoman guilds / Eunjeong Yi
- 9. Gedik : what's in a name? / Seven Ağır and Onur Yıldırım
- 10. Punishment, repression and violence in the marketplace : Istanbul, 1730-1840 / Engin Deniz Akarlı
- 11. Some observations on Istanbul's artisans during the reign of Selim III (1789-1808) / Betül Başaran and Cengiz Kırlı
- 12. Out of the frying pan, into the fire : protest, the state, and the end of the guilds in Egypt / John Chalcraft.
