Women, Gender, and the Palace Households in Ottoman Tunisia

Contents

vii contents list of illustrations ix note on transliteration xi chronoloGy xiii acKnoWledGments xv Part i Family Foundations of Ottoman Rule Introduction 3 families, households, and Palace Women in early modern court culture Chapter 1 30 family and the Politics of marriaGe Part ii Family and Provincial Government, 1756–1840 Chapter 2 53 the ProsPerous Palace Chapter 3 79 Women’s Worlds Chapter 4 109 beyond bardo viii Women, Gender, and the Palace households Part iii Nineteenth-Century Transformations Chapter 5 125 the constitution, financial reform, and the modern family Chapter 6 150 inventinG dynastic traditions: family Politics of french colonialism conclusion 172 Appendix 1 179 GenealoGies Appendix 2 186 annual exPense reGisters of the Palace treasury Appendix 3 187 income and exPenditures of the bey notes 189 Glossary 235 biblioGraPhy 239 index 261 ...