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Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Figures/Maps/Tables ix
4. Preface xi
5. Timeline xiv
6. Map xvi
7. Introduction: Once Again, Ottoman Artisans 1
8. Part I: Artisans over the Course of Time
9. 1 Tracing Esnaf in Late Fifteenth-Century Bursa Court Records 51
10. 2 History, Meet Archaeology 70
11. 3 Damascene Artisans around 1700 88
12. 4 Mapping Istanbul’s Hammams of 1752 and their Employees 108
13. 5 Surviving in Difficult Times 136
14. 6 The Shoe Guilds of Istanbul in the Early Nineteenth Century 157
15. Part II: Intra-guild Problems
16. 7 Blurred Boundaries between Soldiers and Civilians 175
17. 8 Rich Artisans and Poor Merchants? 194
18. 9 Gedik: What’s in a Name? 217
19. 10 Punishment, Repression and Violence in the Marketplace 237
20. Part III: Artisans Confronting the Modernizing State
21. 11 Some Observations on Istanbul’s Artisans during the Reign of Selim III (1789–1808) 259
22. 12 Out of the Frying Pan, Into the Fire 278
23. Glossary 293
24. Bibliography 306
25. List of Contributors 335
26. Index 340