Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Note on Transliteration xi
5. Chronology xiii
6. Acknowledgments xv
7. Part I Family Foundations of Ottoman Rule
8. Introduction. Families, Households, and Palace Women in Early Modern Court Culture 1
9. Chapter 1 Family and the Politics of Marriage 30
10. Part II Family and Provincial Government, 1756–1840
11. Chapter 2 The Prosperous Palace 53
12. Chapter 3 Women’s Worlds 79
13. Chapter 4 Beyond Bardo 109
14. Part III Nineteenth-Century Transformations
15. Chapter 5 The Constitution, Financial Reform, and the Modern Family 125
16. Chapter 6 Inventing Dynastic Traditions: Family Politics of French Colonialism 150
17. Conclusion 172
18. Appendix 1. Genealogies 179
19. Appendix 2. Annual Expense Registers of the Palace Treasury 186
20. Appendix 3. Income and Expenditures of the Bey 187
21. Notes 189
22. Glossary 235
23. Bibliography 239
24. Index 261