Selim III, Social Control and Policing in Istanbul at the End of the Eighteenth Century -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Tables -- List of Maps -- List of Illustrations -- Note on Transliteration and Translation -- Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- 2 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 -- Provisioning the City -- 3 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 -- 4 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 -- Ethnic and Religious Divisions in the Marketplace according to the Inspection Register of 1792 -- From Mechulü'l-Ahval to Ma?lumü'l-Ahval: Kefalet in the Registers -- 5 "We Have No Security": Public Order in the Neighborhood -- Approaching the Court Records -- Public Order in the Neighborhood -- The Courts and Their Proceedings -- Divan-i Hümayun as Court of Appeal -- Public Order in the Court Records -- 6 Concluding Remarks -- Appendix 4.1: List of shops and trades in the southern Golden Horn in 1792.

Appendix 4.2: Distribution of inns according to location in the southern Golden Horn -- Bibliography -- Index.