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Published 1985
The man who loved Egypt : Bimbashi McPherson /

: Romanization of Arabic Script on t.p : Shadharat Sharqiyah Selections from the author's correspondence,Originally published under titlte : Bimbashi Mcpherson : a life in Egypt. : 287 pages : table, map ; 20 cm. : Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-276) and index. : 0563204370

Published 2014
Selim III, social control and policing in Istanbul at the end of the eighteenth century : between crisis and order /

: In Selim III, Social Order and Policing in Istanbul at the End of the Eighteenth Century Betül Başaran examines Sultan Selim III's social control and surveillance measures. Drawing mainly from a set of inspection registers and censuses from the 1790s, as well as court records she paints a colorful picture of the city's residents and artisans. She argues that the period constitutes the beginnings of large-scale population control and crisis management and urges us to think about the Ottoman Empire as a polity that was increasingly becoming a "statistical" state, along with its contemporaries in Europe, and to go beyond mechanistic models of borrowing that focus primarily on military reform and European influence in our discussions of Ottoman reform and "modernity".
: 1 online resource (pages) : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9789004274556 : Available to subscribing member institutions only.