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Index
About the Author
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of Maps
Introduction
ELITE TRAVELLERS
1. What an Ottoman ambassador might find out in Vienna
2. Material culture in Latinate Europe: as reported by eighteenth-century Ottoman ambassadors
3. ‘Seeking refuge in the Sultan’s shadow’: asylum seekers on Ottoman territory
4. Evliya Çelebi’s tales of Cairo’s guildsmen
5. Ottoman travellers in Venice
ORDINARY PEOPLE AND THEIR PRODUCTS ON THE MOVE
6. Keepsakes and trade goods from seventeenth-century Mecca
7. Entering and leaving the Empire’s industrious core: Bursa and its textiles
8. ‘Just passing through’: travellers and sojourners in mid-sixteenth-century Üsküdar
9. Mostly fugitives: the trials and tribulations of slaves in sixteenth-century Üsküdar
10. The adventures of Tunisian fez-sellers in eighteenth-century Istanbul
11. Controlling borders and workmen, all in one fell swoop: from Istanbul to Hotin in 1716
STAYING PUT
12. Selling sweetmeats: Istanbul in the mid-eighteenth century
13. Where to make and sell cheap textiles in eighteenth-century Istanbul: a buyer’s guide
14. In quest of their daily bread: artisans of Istanbul under Selim III (r. 1789–1807) 197
Conclusion: Movement into the Ottoman capital: some desiderata
Dramatis Personae
Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
Endnotes
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