Selim III, Social Control and Policing in Istanbul at the End of the Eighteenth Century
Betül Başaran
Boston  Brill
Between Crisis and Order<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>In Selim III, Social Order and Policing in Istanbul at the End of the Eighteenth Century Betül Başaran examines Selim III’s social control measures and Istanbul’s dynamic population, urging us to go beyond mechanistic models of borrowing that focus primarily on European influence in discussions of Ottoman “modernity”.