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 <em>Crime, Poverty and Survival in the Middle East and North Africa: The ‘Dangerous Classes’ since 1800</em>, 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 <code>data/</code>: data sets on food prices as CSV. <code>maps/</code>: maps/geo-located data for the cities of Damascus, Hama, and Homs - mostly as GeoJSON. <code>plots/</code>: plots of time series of various food prices across <em>Bilād al-Shām</em>. <code>publication/</code>: the final plots used for the publication. <code>r/</code>: R scripts for plotting the price data on a timeline.