Who Killed Panayot?

Who Killed Panayot? retells the true story of an opium robbery and subsequent police investigation that took place in the port-city of Izmir in 1850-52. It will be of interest to students and scholars of microhistory, as well as those interested in sociolegal history, non-Western modernity, and the Ottoman Empire.

Autorentext

Omri Paz is a Senior Lecturer at Levinsky College of Education. His research interests lie in the areas of Ottoman and Middle Eastern social and socio-legal history, with a focus on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Klappentext

Who Killed Panayot? retells the true story of an opium robbery and subsequent police investigation that took place in the port-city of Izmir in 1850-52. It will be of interest to students and scholars of microhistory, as well as those interested in sociolegal history, non-Western modernity, and the Ottoman Empire.

Inhalt

Introduction The Big Picture 1. Episode One: The Opium Deal 2. Episode Two: The Robbery 3. Episode Three: Reporting the Robbery 4. Episode Four: Panayot and Lefter's Arrest 5. Episode Five: The Siege on Barker's Villa (The Ottoman Version) 6. Episode Six: The Siege on Barker's Villa (The British Version) 7. Episode Seven: At Ulucakl Dimitri's 8. Episode Eight: At John Werry's 9. Episode Nine: Interrogations in Seydiköy 10. Episode Ten: Panayot's Death & Bekir Aa's Arrest 11. Episode Eleven: Manastrl Mihail's Tale 12. Episode Twelve: The Consul & The Pasha 13. Episode Thirteen: An Imperial Affair 14. Episode Fourteen: Ali Nihat Efendi's Commission 15. Conclusions: A New Legal Culture