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001 2006102155
003 DLC
005 20070321082713.0
008 061215s2007 vtu 001 0 eng
010 $a 2006102155
020 $a9780754659310 (alk. paper)
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
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050 00 $aDR432$b.S78 2007
082 00 $a956/.015$222
245 00 $aStudies on Ottoman society and culture, 16th-18th centuries /$cedited by Rhoads Murphey.
260 $aBurlington, VT :$bAshgate Pub. Co.,$c2007.
263 $a0707
300 $ap. cm.
490 0 $aVariorum collected studies series ;$vCS880
500 $aIncludes index.
505 0 $aPreface -- Cultural relations and exchange of ideas -- Ottoman medicine and transculturalism from the 16th through the 18th century -- Westernisation in the 18th-century Ottoman empire: how far, how fast? -- Bigots or informed observers? a periodization of pre-colonial English and European writing on the Middle East -- The Ottoman attitude towards the adoption of western technology: the role of the efrenci technicians in civil and military applications -- Urban living -- Provisioning Istanbul: the state and subsistence in the early modern Middle East -- Communal living in Ottoman Istanbul: searching for the foundations of an urban tradition -- Disaster relief practices in 17th-century Istanbul: a brief overview of organizational aspects of urban renewal projects undertaken in the aftermath of catastrophic fires -- The city of Belgrade in the early years of Serbian self-rule and dual administration with the Ottomans: vignettes from Rashid's history illuminating the transformation of a Muslim metropolis of the Balkans -- Population groups. Population movements. Production and organisation of labour -- Some features of nomadism in the Ottoman empire: a survey based on tribal census and judicial appeal documentation from archives in Istanbul and Damascus -- Ottoman census methods in the mid-16th century: three case histories -- Conceptual and practical uses of the "summary" (idjmal) register in 16th-century Ottoman administrative practice -- Population movements and labour mobility in Balkan contexts: a glance at post-1600 Ottoman social realities -- Silver production in Rumelia according to an official Ottoman report circa 1600 -- Tobacco cultivation in northern Syria and conditions of its marketing and distribution in the late 18th century -- The construction of a fortress at Mosul in 1631: a case study of an important facet of Ottoman military expenditure -- Index.
651 0 $aTurkey$xSocial life and customs$y16th century.
651 0 $aTurkey$xSocial life and customs$y17th century.
651 0 $aTurkey$xSocial life and customs$y18th century.
700 1 $aMurphey, Rhoads,$d1949-
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip077/2006102155.html