Stories of Ottoman Men and Women Establishing Status, Establishing Control

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9789757622605
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358
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1
Basım Tarihi:
2002
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Ciltsiz
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1. Hamur
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İngilizce
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Stories of Ottoman Men and Women
Stories of Ottoman Men and Women Establishing Status, Establishing Control
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Most of the articles contained in the present volume are of fairly recent vintage, having been published after 1990 and in quite a few instances, after 1995, They thus reflect the zeitgeist of the 1990s, which has been characterized by a return of interest in the individual, and also in small groups such as households, guilds or neighborhoods.

If we look at this sea change from a point of view immament to the historical discipline, we can explain it as a reaction to the tendency, so typical of the 1960s and 1970s, to view social history as a mere adjunct to economic history. This latter view had been embraced by quite a few scholars of my generation, myself included, as a welcome alternative to the limited and limiting horizons of the 'old-style' political and diplomatic history. In the particular brabd of economic history which evolved during the 1970s and 1970s, long-term developments were accorded privileged treatment over and above short-term oscilliations, deemed of lesser importance. Yet the latter, even though they may have been compensated for within a couple of years or so, quite often constituted the significant factor, at least where real people were concerned.

Short term fluctuations affected the lives of ordinary people in a more dramatic fashion than most long-term tendencies, which, when all is said and done, had an impact mainly in the long run. In his seminal work how famine killed off more than half a family of Beauvais weavers. He ended his depressing story with the remark "and all that on account of the bread price"- seventeenth-century grain prices being notorious for their instability. Without any doubt, bread became cheaper again within a very few years; but that was of no help to the dead.

Most of the articles contained in the present volume are of fairly recent vintage, having been published after 1990 and in quite a few instances, after 1995, They thus reflect the zeitgeist of the 1990s, which has been characterized by a return of interest in the individual, and also in small groups such as households, guilds or neighborhoods.

If we look at this sea change from a point of view immament to the historical discipline, we can explain it as a reaction to the tendency, so typical of the 1960s and 1970s, to view social history as a mere adjunct to economic history. This latter view had been embraced by quite a few scholars of my generation, myself included, as a welcome alternative to the limited and limiting horizons of the 'old-style' political and diplomatic history. In the particular brabd of economic history which evolved during the 1970s and 1970s, long-term developments were accorded privileged treatment over and above short-term oscilliations, deemed of lesser importance. Yet the latter, even though they may have been compensated for within a couple of years or so, quite often constituted the significant factor, at least where real people were concerned.

Short term fluctuations affected the lives of ordinary people in a more dramatic fashion than most long-term tendencies, which, when all is said and done, had an impact mainly in the long run. In his seminal work how famine killed off more than half a family of Beauvais weavers. He ended his depressing story with the remark "and all that on account of the bread price"- seventeenth-century grain prices being notorious for their instability. Without any doubt, bread became cheaper again within a very few years; but that was of no help to the dead.

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