Feeding Istanbul : : the political economy of urban provisioning / / by Candan Turkkan.
How was Istanbul, once the capital of the Ottoman Empire and now the financial heart of contemporary Turkey, provisioned in the early 19th century? Tracing how the sovereign's duty to provision the city and protect his subjects from hunger was gradually transferred to the market and became a re...
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Superior document: | Studies in Critical Social Sciences ; Volume 5 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2021] ©2021 |
Year of Publication: | 2021 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Studies in critical social sciences ;
Volume 5. |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
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Summary: | How was Istanbul, once the capital of the Ottoman Empire and now the financial heart of contemporary Turkey, provisioned in the early 19th century? Tracing how the sovereign's duty to provision the city and protect his subjects from hunger was gradually transferred to the market and became a responsibility of the subjects (later, citizens) alone, Feeding Istanbul makes a compelling case for situating food politics, and politics of urban provisioning in particular, at the centre of the way we think about the relationship between the sovereign and the political community. |
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Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9004424504 |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | by Candan Turkkan. |