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© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2011 DOI 10.1163/187754611X570963 Turkish Historical Review 2 (2011) 79–93 brill.nl/thr Book Reviews Charles L. Wilkins, Forging Urban Solidarities: Ottoman Aleppo 1640-1700 (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2010) pp. xvi + 323, ISBN 978 90 04 16907 4. Charles Wilkins’s book, a revision of his Ph.D. dissertation, adds to the grow- ing body of scholarship on the provincial city Aleppo. Wilkins approaches the history of Aleppo in the second half of the seventeenth century from a novel angle: he asks what was the impact of war on this city? War was a frequent feature of Ottoman history, but Wilkins’s period saw particularly intense and prolonged confl ict, ending with the Ottomans’ defeat in the wars with the Habsburgs at the century’s conclusion. Aleppo was not a frontier city, but Wilkins argues that war nevertheless had a considerable impact through taxa- tion and through the presence of military regiments. Th e range of evidence on which Wilkins bases his study is impressive. He has conducted archival research in Istanbul and in Damascus and has used sources in Turkish and in Arabic. His sources are of many diff erent genres: the shari‘a court records which are the
Turkish Historical Review – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 2011
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