Forging urban solidarities : Ottoman Aleppo 1640-1700 /
As with most empires of the Early Modern period (1500-1800), the Ottomans mobilized human and material resources for warmaking on a scale that was vast and unprecedented. The present volume examines the direct and indirect effects of warmaking on Aleppo, an important Ottoman administrative center an...
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Language: English
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2010.
Series:
The Ottoman Empire and its Heritage
41.
Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2010, ISBN: 9789004223059.
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Call Number: DS99.A56 W55 2010
| Summary: | As with most empires of the Early Modern period (1500-1800), the Ottomans mobilized human and material resources for warmaking on a scale that was vast and unprecedented. The present volume examines the direct and indirect effects of warmaking on Aleppo, an important Ottoman administrative center and Levantine trading city, as the empire engaged in multiple conflicts, including wars with Venice (1644-69), Poland (1672-76) and the Hapsburg Empire (1663-64, 1683-99). Focusing on urban institutions such as residential quarters, military garrisons, and guilds, and using intensively the records of local law courts, the study explores how the routinization of direct imperial taxes and the assimilation of soldiers to civilian life challenged - and reshaped - the city's social and political order. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| ISBN: | 9789004193307 |
| ISSN: | 1380-6076 ; |
| Access: | Available to subscribing member institutions only. |