Selim III, Social Control and Policing in Istanbul at the End of the Eighteenth Century - Between Crisis and Order

In Selim III, Social Order and Policing in Istanbul at the End of the Eighteenth Century Betül Başaran 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".

About the author

Betül Başaran, Ph.D. (2006), University of Chicago, is Associate Professor at St. Mary's College of Maryland. She has published articles on Istanbul's population and artisans during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

Product details

• Authors: Ba&, Betül Ba&351;aran
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.07.2014
• EAN: 9789004246072
• ISBN: 978-90-04-24607-2
• No. of pages: 296
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 241 mm x 22 mm
• Weight: 584 g
• Series: Ottoman Empire and Its Heritag
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918