Bread from the lion's mouth : artisans struggling for a livelihood in Ottoman cities

Weitere Verfasser: Faroqhi, Suraiya, 1941- , [HerausgeberIn]
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: New York : Berghahn, 2015.
Umfang/Format: xv, 349 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Schriftenreihe: International studies in social history ; vol. 25
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • Introduction: once again, Ottoman artisans
  • PART I. ARTISANS OVER THE COURSE OF TIME
  • Tracing esnaf in late fifteenth-century Bursa court records / İklil Selçuk
  • History, meet archaeology: The potter's craft in Ottoman Hungary / Geza David and Ibolya Gerelyes
  • Damascene artisans around 1700 / Colette Establet
  • Mapping Istanbul's hammams of 1752 and their employees / Nina Ergin
  • Surviving in difficult times : the cotton and silk trades in Bursa around 1800 / Suraiya Faroqhi
  • The shoe guilds of Istanbul in the early nineteenth century : a case study / Nalan Turna
  • PART II. INTRA-GUILD PROBLEMS
  • Blurred boundaries between soldiers and civilians : artisan Janissaries in seventeenth-century Istanbul / Gülay Yılmaz Diko
  • Rich artisans and poor merchants? : a critical look at the supposed egalitarianism in Ottoman guilds / Eunjeong Yi
  • Gedik : what's in a name? / Seven Ağır and Onur Yıldırım
  • Punishment, repression and violence in the marketplace : Istanbul, 1730-1840 / Engin Deniz Akarlı
  • PART III. ARTISANS CONFRONTING THE MODERNIZING STATE
  • Some observations on Istanbul's artisans during the reign of Selim III (1789-1808) / Betül Başaran and Cengiz Kırlı
  • Out of the frying pan, into the fire : protest, the state, and the end of the guilds in Egypt / John Chalcraft.