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.

本仓库收录了本人学术论文《晚期奥斯曼统治下沙姆地区（Bilād Al-Shām）的城市粮食骚乱：作为一种“抗争套路（Repertoire of Contention）”》的补充材料，涵盖地图、数据集与代码。该论文收录于学术文集《中东与北非的犯罪、贫困与生存：1800年以来的“危险阶级”》，由斯蒂芬妮·克龙因（Stephanie Cronin）主编，出版方为伦敦I.B. Tauris出版社，2019年，页码范围为157至176页。本仓库内所有材料均采用知识共享署名-禁止演绎4.0（CC BY-ND 4.0）许可协议发布。

本仓库材料按以下文件夹结构组织：
- data/：存储食品价格相关数据集的CSV格式文件。
- maps/：涵盖大马士革、哈马与霍姆斯三座城市的地图及地理定位数据，文件格式以GeoJSON为主。
- plots/：展示沙姆地区各类食品价格时间序列的可视化图表。
- publication/：用于正式出版的最终版可视化图表文件。
- r/：用于按时间线绘制价格数据的R语言脚本。