Bread from the lion's mouth artisans struggling for a livelihood in Ottoman cities / edited by Suraiya Faroqhi.
| Other author | Faroqhi, Suraiya, 1941- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York : Berghahn, 2015. |
| Description | xv, 349 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | International studies in social history ; vol. 25 |
| Contents | Introduction : once again, Ottoman artisans -- PART I. ARTISANS OVER THE COURSE OF TIME -- Tracing esnaf in late fifteenth-century Bursa court records / İklil Selçuk -- History, meet archaeology: The potter's craft in Ottoman Hungary / Geza David and Ibolya Gerelyes -- Damascene artisans around 1700 / Colette Establet -- Mapping Istanbul's hammams of 1752 and their employees / Nina Ergin -- Surviving in difficult times : the cotton and silk trades in Bursa around 1800 / Suraiya Faroqhi -- The shoe guilds of Istanbul in the early nineteenth century : a case study / Nalan Turna -- PART II. INTRA-GUILD PROBLEMS -- Blurred boundaries between soldiers and civilians : artisan Janissaries in seventeenth-century Istanbul / Gülay Yılmaz Diko -- Rich artisans and poor merchants? : a critical look at the supposed egalitarianism in Ottoman guilds / Eunjeong Yi -- Gedik : what's in a name? / Seven Ağır and Onur Yıldırım -- Punishment, repression and violence in the marketplace : Istanbul, 1730-1840 / Engin Deniz Akarlı -- PART III. ARTISANS CONFRONTING THE MODERNIZING STATE -- Some observations on Istanbul's artisans during the reign of Selim III (1789-1808) / Betül Başaran and Cengiz Kırlı -- Out of the frying pan, into the fire : protest, the state, and the end of the guilds in Egypt / John Chalcraft. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 306-334) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2014029069 |
| ISBN | 9781782385585 (hardback) |