Writing in the years of the Eastern Question, a British consul’s wife draws on two decades in the Ottoman lands to describe its peoples: Bulgarians, Greeks, Albanians, Turks, Armenians, Jews, Circassians, Tatars and Gypsies. She covers their customs, religion and godparenthood, women’s lives and education, land tenure, peasant holdings, Turkish houses, police and brigandage.
A rich firsthand ethnography of the late Ottoman Balkans and Anatolia, valuable to historians and travellers alike. Download the free EPUB.