New book: Popular Protest and Political Participation in the Ottoman Empire

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I would like to bring to your attention the following publication which might be of interest to some of you:

Popular Protest and Political Participation in the Ottoman Empire: Studies in Honor of Suraiya Faroqhi
Edited by Eleni Gara, M. Erdem Kabadayı, and Christoph K. Neumann
İstanbul Bilgi University Press, November 2011, 364 pp.
ISBN:978-605-399-226-4

>From the back cover:
Taking as a starting point the seminal work of Suraiya Faroqhi, to whom the volume is dedicated, the contributions investigate major aspects of popular and elite involvement in Ottoman political life from the early seventeenth century to World War I. The studies deal with a wide range of topics, such as the political and judicial functions of petitions, contentious protest and revolt, factionalism, violence and crime, provincial political households, elections to city councils, commercial propaganda, and resistance to state imperatives. The contributors challenge received wisdom and show the importance of the Ottoman subjects’ participation in decision making and political processes—despite the restraints imposed by the imperial ideological order.

Contents:

Introduction: Ottoman Subjects as Political Actors: Historiographical Representations
Eleni Gara, Christoph K. Neumann, and M. Erdem Kabadayı

Part One: Petitioning Practices

1. Coping with the State’s Agents “from below”: Petitions, Legal Appeal, and the Sultan’s Justice in Ottoman Legal Practice
Eyal Ginio

2. Petitioning as Political Action: Petitioning Practices of Workers in Ottoman Factories
M. Erdem Kabadayı

3. Modes of Popular Intervention in the Ottoman Millet System: The Greeks of Istanbul in the Beginning of the Twentieth Century
Méropi Anastassiadou-Dumont

Part Two: Contentious Protest and Revolt

4. Popular Protest and the Limitations of Sultanic Justice
Eleni Gara

5. Artisans’ Networks and Revolt in Late Seventeenth-Century Istanbul: An Examination of the Istanbul Artisans’ Rebellion of 1688
Eunjeong Yi

6. Political Participation, Public Order, and Monetary Pledges (nezir) in Ottoman Crete
Antonis Anastasopoulos

Part Three: Factionalism and Violence

7. Bilateral Factionalism and Violence in Ottoman Egypt
Jane Hathaway

8. Aleppo’s Janissaries: Crime Syndicate or Vox Populi?
Bruce Masters

9. Murder and Mayhem in Ottoman Rumeli: Local Political Relations in Eighteenth-Century Macedonia
Linda T. Darling

10. Local Factionalism and Political Mobilization in the Albanian Province in the Late Ottoman Empire: A Consul Caught up in a Conflict between Villagers and the Ottoman Authorities
Nathalie Clayer

11. Canikli Ali Pasa (d. 1785): A Provincial Portrait in Loyalty and Disloyalty
Virginia H. Aksan

12. Elected, but never in Office: City Councils in Late Ottoman Istanbul and the Election of 1878
Christoph K. Neumann

Part Five: Resisting the State, Defending the Empire

13. Between Protest and Envy: Foreign Companies and Ottoman Muslim Society
Yavuz Kose

14. State Discipline and Villagers’ Resistance to Mine Work in the Zonguldak Coalfield, 1820-1920
Donald Quataert

15. The Ottoman Politics of War in Mesopotamia, 1914-1918, and Popular Reactions: The Example of Hilla
Christoph Herzog

Some options for ordering:
İstanbul Bilgi University Press: http://www.bilgiyay.com/
Zero Books: http://www.zerobooksonline.com/eng/
Libra Books: http://www.librabooks.com.tr/

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9. Murder and Mayhem in Ottoman Rumeli: Local Political Relations in Eighteenth-Century Macedonia
Linda T. Darling

Here are some links to discussions relating to this period:

http://www.macedoniantruth.org/forum/showthread.php?t=962&highlight=century+russia+austria

http://www.macedoniantruth.org/forum/showthread.php?t=948&page=5