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Urban governance under the Ottomans : between cosmopolitanism and conflict

Title
Urban governance under the Ottomans : between cosmopolitanism and conflict / edited by Ulrike Freitag & Nora Lafi.
Publication
Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2014.

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Additional Authors
  • Freitag, Ulrike.
  • Lafi, Nora.
Description
xii, 238 pages; 24 cm
Summary
"Urban Governance under the Ottomans focuses on one of the most pressing topics in this field, namely the question of why cities formerly known for their multiethnic and multi-religious composition became increasingly marked by conflict in the 19th century. This collection of essays represents the result of an intense process of discussion among many of the authors, who have been invited to combine theoretical considerations on the question sketched above, with concrete case studies based upon original archival research. From Istanbul to Aleppo, and from the Balkans to Jerusalem, what emerges from the book is a renewed image of the imperial and local mechanisms of coexistence, and of their limits and occasional dissolution in times of change and crisis.Raising questions of governance and changes therein, as well as epistemological questions regarding what has often been termed 'cosmopolitanism', this book calls for a closer investigation of incidents of both peaceful coexistence, as well as episodes of violence and conflict. A useful addition to existing literature, this book will be of interest to scholars and researchers in the fields of Urban Studies, History and Middle Eastern Studies"--
Series Statement
SOAS/Routledge studies on the Middle East ; 21
Uniform Title
SOAS/Routledge studies on the Middle East ; 21.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references( pages 213-230) and index.
Contents
  • Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: cosmopolitanism and conflicts: changes and challenges in Ottoman urban governance; PART I Sites of tolerance, sites of violence; 1 Did cosmopolitanism exist in eighteenth-century Istanbul? Stories of Christian and Jewish artisans; 2 A city under fire: urban violence in Istanbul during the Alemdar incident (1808)
  • 3 From a challenge to the Empire to a challenge to urban cosmopolitanism? The 1819 Aleppo riots and the limits of the imperial urban domestication of factional violencePART II The governance of difference; 4 Social stratification and change in Herzegovinian urban life in the Tanzimat era; 5 Ottoman reform and urban government in the District of Jerusalem, 1867-1917; PART III Social and demographic mobility; 6 The role of labour migration in the urban economy and governance of nineteenth-century Istanbul; 7 (A quest for) the bourgeoisie of Istanbul: identities, roles and conflicts.
  • 8 North to south migration in the imperial era: workers and vagabonds between Vienna and ConstantinopleBibliography; Index.
Call Number
JFE 16-517
ISBN
  • 9780415725477 (hardback : alkaline paper)
  • 041572547X (hardback : alkaline paper)
  • 9781315856797 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
  • 2013040218
  • 40023903382
OCLC
852219599
Title
Urban governance under the Ottomans : between cosmopolitanism and conflict / edited by Ulrike Freitag & Nora Lafi.
Publisher
Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2014.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
SOAS/Routledge studies on the Middle East ; 21
SOAS/Routledge studies on the Middle East ; 21.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references( pages 213-230) and index.
Added Author
Freitag, Ulrike.
Lafi, Nora.
Other Standard Identifier
40023903382
Research Call Number
JFE 16-517
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