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 InfoNew York : Berghahn, 2015.
Descriptionxv, 349 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
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SeriesInternational 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 noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 306-334) and index.
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LCCN 2014029069
ISBN9781782385585 (hardback)