As Night Falls - Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Cities After Dark

A fascinating and vivid picture of the perils and promises of nocturnal life in cities in the early modern Middle East.

List of contents

Introduction; I. Nocturnal Realities: 1. Disquieting; 2. Order Invisible; 3. The Urban Subconscious; 4. Ambivalence and Ambiguity; 5. Manufacturing Light; II. Dark Politics; 6. Shining Power; 7. Night Battles; Conclusion: Dawn of a New Night?

About the author

Avner Wishnitzer is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Middle Eastern and African History at Tel Aviv University where he specializes in the social and cultural history of the Ottoman Empire. He is the author of Reading Clocks, Alla Turca: Time and Society in the Late Ottoman Empire (2015) and a co-editor of A Global Middle East: Mobility, Materiality and Culture in the Modern Age, 1880–1940 (2016).

Product details

• Authors: Avner Wishnitzer, Avner (Tel-Aviv University) Wishnitzer, Wishnitzer Avner
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2021
• EAN: 9781108832144
• ISBN: 978-1-108-83214-4
• No. of pages: 388
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Ottoman Empire, HISTORY / Middle East / General, Social & cultural history, Middle East, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Social and cultural history, Middle Eastern history, C 1700 To C 1800