caa a22 4500 388066318 CHVBK 20180307125133.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1999 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0896634600006361 doi S0896634600006361 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0896634600006361 Özbek Nadir History Department, State University of New York at Binghamton The Politics of Poor Relief in the Late Ottoman Empire 1876-1914 [Elektronische Daten] [Nadir Özbek] This article examines the Ottoman state's increasing involvement in caring for the poor and the needy and the emergence of modern relief institutions and hospitals throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The particular focus will be on the reign of Sultan Abdülhamid II (1876-1909) and the second constitutional period (1908-14) up until World War I. Rather than presenting the emergence of poor-relief institutions in the Ottoman Empire as a function of increasing poverty and need, or as a function of the state's desire to control and regulate the urban population for various concerns, I concentrate on the dynamics of the political sphere. I will focus particularly on the political conflict between the sultan and the new political elite, whose identity was defined in relation to newly structured state functions and services. Copyright © New Perspectives on Turkey 1999 New Perspectives on Turkey Cambridge University Press 21(1999), 1-33 0896-6346 21<1 1999 21 NPT https://doi.org/10.1017/S0896634600006361 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0896634600006361 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Özbek Nadir History Department, State University of New York at Binghamton NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- New Perspectives on Turkey Cambridge University Press 21(1999), 1-33 0896-6346 21<1 1999 21 NPT CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge