with Avner Wishnitzer )
hosted by Sam Dolbee
| What did the nighttime mean in the early modern Ottoman Empire? In this episode, Avner Wishnitzer discusses his recent book *As Night Falls: Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Cities After Dark) *(also available in Turkish translation by Can Gümüş as Gece Çökerken)). He explains how the night was a time for sleep, rest, devotion, sex, crime, drinking, and even revolt. He also talks about the challenges of past sensory states, the influence of the late Walter Andrews on his work, and, finally, the relationship between his work as a historian and his work as an activist.
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