Introduction; 1. Conquest; 2. The palace and the populace; 3. Fear and death; 4. Welfare; 5. The consuming city; 6. Outings and excursions; 7. The hamam; 8. The nineteenth century; Beyond the city; Chronology; Who's who.
Using a wealth of contemporary Ottoman sources, this book recreates the social history of Istanbul.
Ebru Boyar is Assistant Professor in the International Relations Department at the Middle East Technical University, Ankara. Her previous publications include The Ottomans and Trade (edited with Kate Fleet, 2006) and Ottomans, Turks and the Balkans: Empire Lost, Relations Altered (2007). Kate Fleet is Director of the Skilliter Centre for Ottoman Studies at Newnham College, University of Cambridge, and Newton Lecturer in Ottoman History in the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Cambridge. Her previous publications include The Ottoman Capitulations: Text and Context (edited with van den Boogert, 2003) and The Cambridge History of Turkey, Vol. I. Byzantium to Turkey, 1071–1453 (edited, Cambridge, 2008).
'The authors paint a vivid picture of the Ottoman capital, as seen
through Ottoman eyes and as it appeared to foreign visitors down
the ages. Every serious visitor to Istanbul should read this book.'
Colin Imber
'An engaging work, full of Ottoman voices. The authors make the
city come alive, showing its inhabitants as spectators and
participants: gossiping, strolling, demonstrating, smoking,
bathing, and even feeding the birds. They persuasively address
historiographic assumptions from the seclusion of women to the
supposed 'supine fatalism' of the masses.' Palmira Brummett,
University of Tennessee
'In Ebru Boyar and Kate Fleet's A Social History of Ottoman
Istanbul, the sights, sounds, and smells of the city staged
alongside catastrophic events and royal pageantry provide a
captivating and rewarding read.' G. Carole Woodal, H-Urban
(h-net.org/~urban)
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