Natural Disasters in the Ottoman Empire: Plague, Famine, and Other Misfortunes

ISBN-13: 9781107421295 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 263 str.

Yaron Ayalon

Opis

Yaron Ayalon explores the Ottoman Empire's history of natural disasters and its responses on a state, communal, and individual level.

Recenzje

'Within this recently ascendant literature, the originality of Yaron Ayalon's book is that it takes natural disasters as a whole and reads the entire Ottoman history through their perspective. With that ambitious goal it explores the many ways by which the Ottomans came to face disasters such as plague, famine, fire, and earthquake over a period of approximately six centuries.' Barış Taşyakan, Journal of Ottoman Studies

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. The black death and the rise of the Ottomans; 2. Natural disasters and the Ottoman state; 3. Natural disasters and Ottoman communities; 4. Individuals face disasters; 5. Natural disasters at the end of empire; Conclusion.