The inspiration for this book goes back to my dissertation research some thirty years ago. In those days, I was investigating administrative households in Egypt during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. I spent a great deal of time reading
Jane Hathaway
Jane Hathaway is Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of History at Ohio State University. She received her Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1992. She has published extensively on Ottoman Egypt and Yemen, on Ottoman periodization and symbolism, and on the Ottoman Chief Harem Eunuch. Her previously published books include The Politics of Households in Ottoman Egypt: The Rise of the Qazdağlıs (Cambridge 1997), A Tale of Two Factions: Myth, Memory, and Identity in Ottoman Egypt and Yemen (State University of New York Press 2003), Beshir Agha, Chief Eunuch of the Ottoman Imperial Harem (Oneworld 2006), and The Arab Lands under Ottoman Rule, 1516-1800 (Pearson/Longman 2008).