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  • 5 - Manufacturing Light

  • from Part I - Nocturnal Realities
  • Avner Wishnitzer, Tel-Aviv University
  • Book:
    As Night Falls
    Published online:
    27 July 2021
    Print publication:
    01 July 2021, pp 144-170

  • Summary

    This chapter visits sketches the contours of an “Ottoman lighting system,” that is, a centrally regulated network that procured lighting materials from the provinces and channeled them to Istanbul and other crucial points in the imperial power grid and set lighting priorities in line with its political needs. The main argument is that lighting was considered a basic commodity and its regular supply therefore concerned the state. Yet, access to light was extremely unequal, which, as shown in the next chapter, made light a shiny index of power.