City in the Ottoman Empire

City in the Ottoman Empire

Taylor & Francis

The City in the Ottoman EmpireMigration and the making of urban modernity\nAuthor(s): Ulrike Freitag, Malte Fuhrmann, Nora Lafi, Florian Riedler\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138788978, 978-1138788978\nSynopsis\nThe nexus of urban governance and human migration was a crucial feature in the modernisation of cities in the Ottoman Empire of the nineteenth century. This book connects these two concepts to examine the Ottoman city as a destination of human migration, throwing new light on the question of conviviality and cosmopolitanism from the perspective of the legal, administrative and political frameworks within which these occur.\n\nFocusing on groups of migrants with various ethnic, regional and professional backgrounds, the book juxtaposes the trajectories of these people with attempts by local administrations and the government to control their movements and settlements. By combining a perspective from be.

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