Bread from the Lion's Mouth: Artisans Struggling for a Livelihood in Ottoman Cities
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- New York Berghahn Books 2015
- International Studies in Social History 25 .
List of Illustrations Preface Time line Map (from Artisans of Empire) Introduction: Once again, Ottoman artisans PART I: ARTISANS OVER THE COURSE OF TIME Chapter 1. Tracing Esnaf in Late Fifteenth-Century Bursa Court Records İklil Erefe Selçuk Chapter 2. The Art of the Potter in Ottoman Hungary Geza David and Ibolya Gerelyes Chapter 3. Damascene Artisans around 1700 Colette Establet Chapter 4. Mapping Istanbul's Hammams of 1752 and their Employees Nina Ergin Chapter 5. Surviving in Difficult Times: The Cotton and Silk Trades in Bursa around 1800 Suraiya Faroqhi Chapter 6. The Shoe Guilds of Istanbul in the Early Nineteenth Century: A Case Study Nalan Turna PART II: INTRA-GUILD PROBLEMS Chapter 7. Blurred Boundaries between Soldiers and Civilians: Artisan Janissaries in Seventeenth-century Istanbul Gülay Yılmaz Chapter 8. Rich Artisans and Poor Merchants? A Critical Look at the Supposed Egalitarianism in Ottoman Guilds Eunjeong Yi Chapter 9. Gedik: What's in a Name? Onur Yıldırım - Seven Ağır Chapter 10. Punishment, Repression and Violence in the Marketplace: Istanbul, 1730-1840 Engin Deniz Akarlı PART III: ARTISANS CONFRONTING THE MODERNIZING STATE Chapter 11. Some observations on Istanbul's artisans during the reign of Selim III (1789-1808) Betül Başaran and Cengiz Kırlı Chapter 12. Out of the Frying Pan, Into the Fire: Protest, the State, and the End of the Guilds in Egypt John Chalcraft Glossary Contributors Bibliography Index
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