Urban Food Riots in Late Ottoman Bilad al-Sham as a 'Repertoire of Contention'

This repository holds supplementary material such as maps, data sets, and code for my essay ‘Urban Food Riots in Late Ottoman Bilād Al-Shām as a “Repertoire of Contention”’, in Crime, Poverty and Survival in the Middle East and North Africa: The ‘Dangerous Classes’ since 1800, ed. Stephanie Cronin (London: I.B. Tauris, 2019), 157–76. All materials are licensed as cc by-nd 4.0.

Material is organised in the following folders

• data/: data sets on food prices as CSV.
• maps/: maps/geo-located data for the cities of Damascus, Hama, and Homs - mostly as GeoJSON.
• plots/: plots of time series of various food prices across Bilād al-Shām.
• publication/: the final plots used for the publication.
• r/: R scripts for plotting the price data on a timeline.