Bread from the Lion's Mouth : : Artisans Struggling for a Livelihood in Ottoman Cities / / ed. by Suraiya Faroqhi.

The newly awakened interest in the lives of craftspeople in Turkey is highlighted in this collection, which uses archival documents to follow Ottoman artisans from the late 15th century to the beginning of the 20th. The authors examine historical changes in the lives of artisans, focusing on the cra...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Place / Publishing House:New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2015]
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Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:International Studies in Social History ; 25
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Physical Description:1 online resource (366 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Figures/Maps/Tables
  • Preface
  • Timeline
  • Map
  • Introduction: Once Again, Ottoman Artisans
  • Part I: Artisans over the Course of Time
  • 1 Tracing Esnaf in Late Fifteenth-Century Bursa Court Records
  • 2 History, Meet Archaeology
  • 3 Damascene Artisans around 1700
  • 4 Mapping Istanbul’s Hammams of 1752 and their Employees
  • 5 Surviving in Difficult Times
  • 6 The Shoe Guilds of Istanbul in the Early Nineteenth Century
  • Part II: Intra-guild Problems
  • 7 Blurred Boundaries between Soldiers and Civilians
  • 8 Rich Artisans and Poor Merchants?
  • 9 Gedik: What’s in a Name?
  • 10 Punishment, Repression and Violence in the Marketplace
  • Part III: Artisans Confronting the Modernizing State
  • 11 Some Observations on Istanbul’s Artisans during the Reign of Selim III (1789–1808)
  • 12 Out of the Frying Pan, Into the Fire
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • List of Contributors
  • Index