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Travel and artisans in the Ottoman Empire: employment and mobility in the early modern era

Travel and artisans in the Ottoman Empire: employment and mobility in the early modern era
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ISBN 1780764812 (hbk.)
9781780764818 (hbk.)
Author Faroqhi, Suraiya 1941-
Title Travel and artisans in the Ottoman Empire : employment and mobility in the early modern era / [by] Suraiya Faroqhi
Publisher London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2014
Physical desc. xxii, 296 p. ; maps ; 25 cm
Series Library of Ottoman studies 44
Bibliography etc. Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-280) and index.
Contents Introduction -- Elite travellers. What an Ottoman ambassador might find out in Vienna -- Material culture in Latinate Europe: as reported by eighteenth-century Ottoman ambassadors -- 'Seeking refuge in the sultan's shadow': asylum seekers on Ottoman territory -- Evliya Celebi's tales of Cairo's guildsmen -- Ottoman travellers in Venice -- Ordinary people and their products on the move. Keepsakes and trade goods from seventeenth-century Mecca -- Entering and leaving the Empire's industrious core: Bursa and its textiles -- 'Just passing through': travellers and sojourners in mid-sixteenth-century Üsküdar -- Mostly fugitives: the trials and tribulations of slaves in sixteenth-century Üsküdar -- The adventures of Tunisian fez-sellers in eighteenth-century Istanbul -- Controlling borders and workmen, all in one fell swoop: from Istanbul to Hotin in 1716 -- Staying put. Selling sweetmeats: Istanbul in the mid-eighteenth century -- Where to make and sell cheap textiles in eighteenth-century Istanbul: a buyer's guide -- In quest of their daily bread: artisans of Istanbul under Selim III (r. 1789-1807) -- Conclusion: movement into the Ottoman capital: some desiderata.
Subject Travelers -- Middle East -- History
Artisans -- Middle East -- History
Occupational mobility -- Turkey -- History
Labor mobility -- Turkey -- History
Turkey -- History -- Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918
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