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The Mongol Conquests in World History by Timothy May (review)

The Mongol Conquests in World History by Timothy May (review) journal of world history, september 2013 shifts markedly. Zarinebaf provides ample examples of galley servitude, banishment, imprisonment, and rehabilitation, painting a fascinating and nuanced picture of the particular regime of punishment in force in Istanbul in the later eighteenth century. In that regime, punishment distinguished between types of "criminals": galleys for converts and thieves, banishment for women and high officials, imprisonment as a stopgap. Here, Zarinebaf displays the most novel research findings drawn from her archival records, which concern prostitution and galley convicts from the early eighteenth century. It is a tantalizing close to a book that does not deliver all that it promises. Its finest moments take place at the level of the urban quarter: semi-legal flea markets fencing stolen goods (p. 84), the "zoning" of prostitution (p. 104), local efforts at surveillance and control (pp. 130­132). In the flourishing global historiography on urban crime and punishment, this book shows that generalizing from microhistory retains its methodological and narrative challenge. The book contains a number of editing errors. Septimius Severus built the hippodrome in 203, not Setemius in 1203 (p. 23). Within a single paragraph, the Ottoman word bostanci is spelled correctly and incorrectly (p. 138). The http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of World History University of Hawai'I Press

The Mongol Conquests in World History by Timothy May (review)

Broadbridge, Anne F.
Journal of World History , Volume 24 (3) – Nov 12, 2013
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journal of world history, september 2013 shifts markedly. Zarinebaf provides ample examples of galley servitude, banishment, imprisonment, and rehabilitation, painting a fascinating and nuanced picture of the particular regime of punishment in force in Istanbul in the later eighteenth century. In that regime, punishment distinguished between types of "criminals": galleys for converts and thieves, banishment for women and high officials, imprisonment as a stopgap. Here, Zarinebaf displays the most novel research findings drawn from her archival records, which concern prostitution and galley convicts from the early eighteenth century. It is a tantalizing close to a book that does not deliver all that it promises. Its finest moments take place at the level of the urban quarter: semi-legal flea markets fencing stolen goods (p. 84), the "zoning" of prostitution (p. 104), local efforts at surveillance and control (pp. 130­132). In the flourishing global historiography on urban crime and punishment, this book shows that generalizing from microhistory retains its methodological and narrative challenge. The book contains a number of editing errors. Septimius Severus built the hippodrome in 203, not Setemius in 1203 (p. 23). Within a single paragraph, the Ottoman word bostanci is spelled correctly and incorrectly (p. 138). The

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Published: Nov 12, 2013

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