Bread from the Lion's Mouth

Artisans Struggling for a Livelihood in Ottoman Cities
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-78238-558-5
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 25, 366 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 680 g

Reihe: International Studies in Social History

The newly awakened interest in the lives of craftspeople in Turkey is highlighted in this collection, which uses archival documents to follow Ottoman artisans from the late 15th century to the beginning of the 20th. The authors examine historical changes in the lives of artisans, focusing on the craft organizations (or guilds) that underwent substantial changes over the centuries. The guilds transformed and eventually dissolved as they were increasingly co-opted by modernization and state-building projects, and by the movement of manufacturing to the countryside. In consequence by the 20th century, many artisans had to confront the forces of capitalism and world trade without significant protection, just as the Ottoman Empire was itself in the process of dissolution.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Faroqhi, Suraiya

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Gewerkschaften, Industrielle Beziehungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Preface

Time line

Map (from Artisans of Empire)

Introduction: Once again, Ottoman artisans

PART I: ARTISANS OVER THE COURSE OF TIME

Chapter 1. Tracing Esnaf in Late Fifteenth-Century Bursa Court Records

Iklil Erefe Selçuk

Chapter 2. The Art of the Potter in Ottoman Hungary

Geza David and Ibolya Gerelyes

Chapter 3. Damascene Artisans around 1700

Colette Establet

Chapter 4. Mapping Istanbul’s Hammams of 1752 and their Employees

Nina Ergin

Chapter 5. Surviving in Difficult Times: The Cotton and Silk Trades in Bursa around 1800

Suraiya Faroqhi

Chapter 6. The Shoe Guilds of Istanbul in the Early Nineteenth Century: A Case Study

Nalan Turna

PART II: INTRA-GUILD PROBLEMS

Chapter 7. Blurred Boundaries between Soldiers and Civilians: Artisan Janissaries in Seventeenth-century Istanbul

Gülay Yilmaz

Chapter 8. Rich Artisans and Poor Merchants? A Critical Look at the Supposed Egalitarianism in Ottoman Guilds

Eunjeong Yi

Chapter 9. Gedik: What’s in a Name?

Onur Yildirim –  Seven Agir

Chapter 10. Punishment, Repression and Violence in the Marketplace: Istanbul, 1730-1840

Engin Deniz Akarli

PART III: ARTISANS CONFRONTING THE MODERNIZING STATE

Chapter 11. Some observations on Istanbul’s artisans during the reign of Selim III (1789-1808)

Betül Basaran and Cengiz Kirli

Chapter 12. Out of the Frying Pan, Into the Fire: Protest, the State, and the End of the Guilds in Egypt

John Chalcraft

Glossary

Contributors

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Faroqhi, Suraiya
Suraiya Faroqhi is Professor in the Department of History at Istanbul Bilgi University. She has taught at Middle East Technical University, Ankara (1972-87) and served as a professor of Ottoman Studies at the Ludwig Maximilians Universität in Munich, Germany (1988-2007).