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Zusatztext "Fariba Zarinebaf puts crime and punishment at the center of this history of the global making of the modern state." Informationen zum Autor Fariba Zarinebaf is Associate Professor of History at the University of California at Riverside and author! with J.L. Davis and J. Bennett! of An Historical and Economic Geography of Ottoman Greece: Southwest Morea in the Eighteenth Century. Klappentext This vividly detailed revisionist history exposes the underworld of the largest metropolis of the early modern Mediterranean and through it the entire fabric of a complex! multicultural society. Fariba Zarinebaf maps the history of crime and punishment in Istanbul over more than one hundred years! considering transgressions such as riots! prostitution! theft! and murder and at the same time tracing how the state controlled and punished its unruly population. Linking the history of crime and punishment to the dramatic political! economic! and social transformations that occurred in the eighteenth century! Zarinebaf finds in fact that Istanbul had much more in common with other emerging modern cities in Europe! and even in America. Zusammenfassung Exposes the underworld of the largest metropolis of the early modern Mediterranean and through it the entire fabric of a complex, multicultural society. The author maps the history of crime and punishment in Istanbul over more than one hundred years, considering transgressions such as riots, prostitution, theft, and murder. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Note on Transliteration and Translation Introduction: A Mediterranean Metropolis Part One. Political and Social Setting 1. Istanbul in the Tulip Age 2. Migration and Marginalization 3. Istanbul between Two Rebellions Part Two. Categories of Crime 4. Crimes against Property and Counterfeiting 5. Prostitution and the Vice Trade 6. Violence and Homicide Part Three. Law and Order 7. Policing! Surveillance! and Social Control 8. Ottoman Justice in Multiple Legal Systems 9. Ottoman Punishment: From Oars to Prison Epilogue: The Evolution of Crime and Punishment in a Mediterranean Metropolis Appendix: A Janissary Ballad from the 1703 Rebellion Notes Glossary Bibliography Index ...
