Contents -- -- Introduction 9 -- -- Consumption and socio-political status 35 -- 1. Consumption and eli te status in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: exploring the Ottoman case 37 -- 2. Female costumes in late fıfteenth century Bursa 63 -- 3. Representing France in the Peloponnese: a wealthy French dwelling in 1770 75 -- -- Men and their fortunes 93 -- 4. A builder as slave owner and rural moneylender : Hacı Abdullah of Bursa, campaign mimar 95 -- 5. How to prosper in eighteenth-century Bursa: the fortune of Hacı İbrahim, tanner 113 -- -- Women: controlling resources both material and immaterial 131 -- 6. From the slave market to Arafat: biographies of Bursa women in the late fıfteenth century 133 -- 7. Two women of substance 15 I -- 8. Women's work, poverty and the privileges of guildsmen 167 -- 9. Women as representatives: defending the interests of Ottoman families in the middle of the eighteenth century 179 -- 10. Crime, women and wealth in the eighteenth-century Anatolian countryside 197 -- -- Asserting and dispııting the control of space 217 -- 11. Urban space as disputed grounds: territorial aspects to artisan conflict in sixteenth-to eighteenth-century İstanbul 219 -- 12. Between collective workshops and private homes: places of work in eighteenth-century Bursa 235 -- 13. Quis Custodiet Custodes? Controlling slave identities and slave traders in seventeenth-and eighteenth-century İstanbul 245 -- -- Travel and migration 265 -- 14. Under state control: sixteenth-and seventeenth-century Ottoman craftsmen on their way to İstanbul 267 -- 15. Migration into eighteenth-century ‘Greater İstanbul’ as reflected in the kadi registers of Eyüp 289 -- 16. Anatolian townsmen as pilgrims to Mecca: some evidence from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries 307 -- -- Bibliography 327 -- Index 347