As night falls : eighteenth-century Ottoman cities after dark /
In a world that is constantly awake, illuminated and exposed, there is much to gain from looking into the darkness of times past. This fascinating and vivid picture of nocturnal life in Middle Eastern cities shows that the night in the eighteenth-century Ottoman Empire created unique conditions for...
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
[2021].
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Table of Contents:
- Disquieting
- Order invisible
- The urban subconscious
- Ambivalence and ambiguity
- Manufacturing light
- Shining power
- Night battles
- Conclusion: Dawn of a new night?