Book contents
- As Night Falls
- As Night Falls
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Terms, Names, and Transliteration
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Nocturnal Realities
- 1 Disquieting
- 2 Order Invisible
- 3 The Urban Subconscious
- 4 Ambivalence and Ambiguity
- 5 Manufacturing Light
- Part II Dark Politics
- Appendix: On the Use of Court Records in This Book
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
2 - Order Invisible
from Part I - Nocturnal Realities
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 July 2021
Book contents
- As Night Falls
- As Night Falls
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Terms, Names, and Transliteration
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Nocturnal Realities
- 1 Disquieting
- 2 Order Invisible
- 3 The Urban Subconscious
- 4 Ambivalence and Ambiguity
- 5 Manufacturing Light
- Part II Dark Politics
- Appendix: On the Use of Court Records in This Book
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Seeking to limit potentially invisible, incontrollable activity, official decrees, neighborhood communities, guilds, and moralists together created a powerful discourse that stigmatized the night, and a set of regulations aimed to impose visibility on those who nevertheless went out after dark. Yet, with vision impaired, the night continued to pose a challenge to urban order, and the authorities at times applied harsh punitive measures in order to project fear. These demonstrations of formal violence were meant to somewhat compensate for the rulers’ actually rather precarious control over the dark city.
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- As Night FallsEighteenth-Century Ottoman Cities after Dark, pp. 46 - 80Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021