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Between Crisis and Order 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”. The Eighteenth Century: Defining The Crisis -- Rebellion, Migration And Fear Of Crime In The Well-protected City -- Migration And Public Order -- Customary State Policies And Mechanisms Of Control -- Maintaining Order In The City: Urban Police And Law Enforcement Agencies -- Istanbul's Economy And Population At The End Of The Eighteenth Century -- Natural Disasters And Epidemics -- Wartime Crisis And The New Order: The Policing Of Istanbul, 1789-92 -- Accession Of The Reformist Sultan -- Defining The New Order -- Life In Istanbul And The Demand For Order -- A Sweet Fountain Is Always Crowded -- Investigations And Surveillance Of The Population -- Legal Theory And The Justice Of The Sultan -- The Inspection Registers Of 1791-93 -- Observations On The Kefalet Registers -- Exploration Of The Register Using Correspondence Analysis -- Economic Activity In Intra-muros Istanbul According To The Register -- Janissaries, Immigrant Networks And The Inspectors -- About Coffeehouses And Janissaries. By Betül Başaran. Includes Bibliographical References (page 230-260) And Index. 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 1790s, 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”. In Selim III, Social Order and Policing in Istanbul at the End of the Eighteenth Century Betül Basaran 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."