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The Kin Who Count: Family and Society in Ottoman Aleppo 1770-1840
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The Kin Who Count: Family and Society in Ottoman Aleppo 1770-1840, by Margaret L. Meriwether. Austin, TX: Texas University Press, 1999. viii + 212 pages. Appends. to p. 234. Notes to p. 256. Bibl. to p. 268. Index to p. 278. $45 cloth; $22 paper.
The author states in the Preface that she "wr(o)te a book that will be useful to Middle Eastern scholars interested in families, in gender, and in Ottoman cities, and at the same time accessible to nonspecialists and to students" (p. vii). She has indeed succeeded in this endeavor: this is a very well-written book that demonstrates mastery of both archival and secondary sources on both Aleppo and the larger Middle East, and even the …
