A neighborhood in Ottoman Istanbul : fruit vendors and civil servants in the Kasap İlyas Mahalle / Cem Behar.
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TextLanguage: English Series: SUNY series in the social and economic history of the Middle EastPublisher: Albany : State University of New York Press, 2003Description: 1 online resource (x, 224 pages) : illustrations, mapContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 0791487032; 141752409XSubject(s): Istanbul (Turkey) -- History | Kasap İlyas Mahalle (Istanbul, Turkey) | Istanbul (Turkey) -- Social life and customs | Istanbul (Turkey) -- Economic conditionsAdditional physical formats: No titleDDC classification: 949.61/8 LOC classification: DR738.5.K37 | B44 2003Summary: "Combining the vivid and colorful detail of a micro-history with a wider historical perspective, this groundbreaking study looks at the urban and social history of a small neighborhood community (a mahalle) of Ottoman Istanbul, the Kasap Ilyas. Drawing on exceptionally rich historical documentation starting in the early sixteenth century. Cem Behar focuses on how the Kasap Ilyas mahalle came to mirror some of the overarching issues of the capital city of the Ottoman Empire. Also considered are other issues central to the historiography of cities, such as rural migration and urban integration of migrants, including avenues for professional integration and the solidarity networks migrants formed, and the role of historical guilds and non-guild labor, the ancestor of the "informal" or "marginal" sector found today in less developed countries."--Jacket
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-216) and index.
"Combining the vivid and colorful detail of a micro-history with a wider historical perspective, this groundbreaking study looks at the urban and social history of a small neighborhood community (a mahalle) of Ottoman Istanbul, the Kasap Ilyas. Drawing on exceptionally rich historical documentation starting in the early sixteenth century. Cem Behar focuses on how the Kasap Ilyas mahalle came to mirror some of the overarching issues of the capital city of the Ottoman Empire. Also considered are other issues central to the historiography of cities, such as rural migration and urban integration of migrants, including avenues for professional integration and the solidarity networks migrants formed, and the role of historical guilds and non-guild labor, the ancestor of the "informal" or "marginal" sector found today in less developed countries."--Jacket
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