TY - BOOK ID - 78075137 TI - Selim III, social control and policing in Istanbul at the end of the eighteenth century PY - 2014 VL - 56 SN - 9004274553 9789004274556 9789004246072 900424607X 1306976723 PB - Boston DB - UniCat KW - Police KW - Internal security KW - Security, Internal KW - Insurgency KW - Subversive activities KW - Cops KW - Gendarmes KW - Law enforcement officers KW - Officers, Law enforcement KW - Officers, Police KW - Police forces KW - Police officers KW - Police service KW - Policemen KW - Policing KW - Criminal justice, Administration of KW - Criminal justice personnel KW - Peace officers KW - Public safety KW - Security systems KW - History KW - Legal status, laws, etc. KW - Turkey KW - Istanbul (Turkey) KW - Stamboul (Turkey) KW - Stampōl (Turkey) KW - Stambul (Turkey) KW - Stěmpol (Turkey) KW - T︠S︡arigrad (Turkey) KW - Istāmbūl (Turkey) KW - T︠S︡arʹgrad (Turkey) KW - Āsitānah (Turkey) KW - Ḳushṭa (Turkey) KW - İstanbul Büyük Şehir Belediyesi (Turkey) KW - Greater Istanbul Municipality (Turkey) KW - İstanbul Anakent Belediyesi (Turkey) KW - İstanbul Büyükşehir Belediyesi (Turkey) KW - Polē (Turkey) KW - Estambul (Turkey) KW - Baladīyat Isṭānbūl (Turkey) KW - Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality (Turkey) KW - Constantinople KW - Social life and customs KW - Police - Turkey - Istanbul - History - 18th century KW - Internal security - Turkey - Istanbul - History - 18th century KW - Turkey - History - Selim III, 1789-1807 KW - Istanbul (Turkey) - Social life and customs - 18th century UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78075137 AB - 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 1790's, 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”. ER -