TY  - BOOK
AU  - Paz,Omri
TI  - Who killed Panayot?: reforming Ottoman legal culture in the 19th century 
T2  - Microhistories
SN  - 9781138482074
AV  - HV9960.T9 P39 2021
U1  - 364.15/52095625 23
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Abingdon, Oxon, New York, NY
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Criminal justice, Administration of
KW  - Turkey
KW  - Case studies
KW  - Criminal investigation
KW  - Robbery investigation
KW  - Police brutality
KW  - Foreign relations
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - 19th century
KW  - History
KW  - 1829-1878
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; The Big Picture -- Episode One: The Opium Deal -- Episode Two: The Robbery -- Episode Three: Reporting the Robbery -- Episode Four: Panayot and Lefter's Arrest -- Episode Five: The Siege on Barker's Villa (The Ottoman Version) -- Episode Six: The Siege on Barker's Villa (The British Version) -- Episode Seven: At Ulucaklı Dimitri's -- Episode Eight: At John Werry's -- Episode Nine: Interrogations in Seydiköy -- Episode Ten: Panayot's Death & Bekir Ağa's Arrest -- Episode Eleven: Manastırlı Mihail's Tale -- Episode Twelve: The Consul & The Pasha -- Episode Thirteen: An Imperial Affair -- Episode Fourteen: Ali Nihat Efendi's Commission -- Conclusions: A New Legal Culture
N2  - "Who Killed Panayot? retells the true story of an opium robbery and subsequent police investigation that took place in the port-city of Izmir in 1850-52. What started as a simple case soon turned into a diplomatic crisis between two bygone empires, as the investigation provoked strong tensions between the British community in Izmir and the local Ottoman authorities. These tensions were exacerbated by the death of one of the suspects - a gardener named Panayot - after he was interrogated by the police. Drawing on a wide range of archival sources from the affair, Paz skilfully reconstructs this untold saga. Through microhistory and sociolegal analysis, he pieces together the lives of the outlaws and policemen involved in the case, and sheds important light on the history of opium smuggling and the impact of interrogation under torture. Paz argues that a "culture of lying" was adopted by both British and Ottoman officials, in face of the new legal reality that forged the concepts of human rights and the rule of law. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of microhistory, as well as those interested in sociolegal history, non-Western modernity, and the Ottoman Empire"--
ER  -