Who Killed Panayot?: Reforming Ottoman Legal Culture in the 19th Century

ISBN-13: 9781138482074 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 248 str.

Omri Paz

Opis

Who Killed Panayot? retells the true story of an opium robbery and subsequent police investigation that took place in the port-city of Izmir in 1850-52. It will be of interest to students and scholars of microhistory, as well as those interested in sociolegal history, non-Western modernity, and the Ottoman Empire.

Spis treści

Introduction  The Big Picture  1. Episode One: The Opium Deal  2. Episode Two: The Robbery  3. Episode Three: Reporting the Robbery  4. Episode Four: Panayot and Lefter's Arrest  5. Episode Five: The Siege on Barker's Villa (The Ottoman Version)  6. Episode Six: The Siege on Barker's Villa (The British Version)  7. Episode Seven: At Ulucaklı Dimitri's  8. Episode Eight: At John Werry's  9. Episode Nine: Interrogations in Seydiköy  10. Episode Ten: Panayot's Death & Bekir Ağa's Arrest  11. Episode Eleven: Manastırlı Mihail's Tale  12. Episode Twelve: The Consul & The Pasha  13. Episode Thirteen: An Imperial Affair  14. Episode Fourteen: Ali Nihat Efendi's Commission  15. Conclusions: A New Legal Culture

O autorze

Omri Paz is a Senior Lecturer at Levinsky College of Education. His research interests lie in the areas of Ottoman and Middle Eastern social and socio-legal history, with a focus on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.