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Travel and artisans in the Ottoman Empire : employment and mobility in the early modern era /
It has often been assumed that the subjects of the Ottoman sultans were unable to travel beyond their localities - since peasants needed the permission of their local administrators before they could legitimately leave their villages. According to this view, only soldiers and members of the governin...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
I.B. Tauris,
2014.
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| Colección: | Library of Ottoman studies ;
44. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Elite Travellers
- 1 What an Ottoman ambassador might find out in Vienna 3
- 2 Material culture in Latinate Europe: as reported by eighteenth-century Ottoman ambassadors 26
- 3 'Seeking refuge in the Sultan's shadow': asylum seekers on Ottoman territory 44
- 4 Evliya Çelebi's tales of Cairo's guildsmen 64
- 5 Ottoman travellers in Venice 75
- Ordinary People and their Products on the Move
- 6 Keepsakes and trade goods from seventeenth-century Mecca 89
- 7 Entering and leaving the Empire's industrious core: Bursa and its textiles 99
- 8 'Just passing through': travellers and sojourners in mid-sixteenth-century Üsküdar 117
- 9 Mostly fugitives: the trials and tribulations of slaves in sixteenth-century Üsküdar 129
- 10 The adventures of Tunisian fez-sellers in eighteenth-century Istanbul 143
- 11 Controlling borders and workmen, all in one fell swoop: from Istanbul to Hotin in 1716 156
- Staying Put
- 12 Selling sweetmeats: Istanbul in the mid-eighteenth century 175
- 13 Where to make and sell cheap textiles in eighteenth-century Istanbul: a buyer's guide 186
- 14 In quest of their daily bread: artisans of Istanbul under Selim III (r. 1789-1807) 197.