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Ottoman medicine and transculturalism from the sixteenth through the eighteenth century -- Westernisation in the eighteenth-century Ottoman empire : how far, how fast? -- Bigots or informed observers? : a periodization of pre-colonial English and European writing on the Middle East -- The Ottoman attitude towards the adoption of Western technology : the role of the efrenci technicians in civil and military applications -- Provisioning Istanbul : the state and subsistence in the early modern Middle East -- Communal living in Ottoman Istanbul : searching for the foundations of an urban tradition -- Disaster relief practices in seventeenth-century Istanbul : a brief overview of organizational aspects of urban renewal projects undertaken in the aftermath of catastrophic fires -- The city of Belgrade in the early years of Serbian self-rule and dual administration with the Ottomans : vignettes from Rashid's History illuminating the transformation of a Muslim metropolis of the Balkans -- Some features of nomadism in the Ottoman empire : a survey based on tribal census and judicial appeal documentation from archives in Istanbul and Damascus -- Ottoman census methods in the mid-sixteenth century : three case histories -- The conceptual and pragmatic uses of the 'summary' (idjmal) register in sixteenth-century Ottoman administrative practice -- Population movements and labor mobility in Balkan contexts : a glance at post-1600 Ottoman social realities -- Silver production in Rumelia according to an official Ottoman report circa 1600 -- Tobacco cultivation in northern Syria and conditions of its marketing and distribution in the late eighteenth century -- The construction of a fortress at Mosul in 1631 : a case study of an important facet of Ottoman military expenditure