Women, gender, and the palace households in Ottoman Tunisia

Part I. Family foundations of Ottoman rule

Introduction. Families, households, and palace women in early modern court culture

Family and the politics of marriage: the early Ottoman era in Tunis (1574/1756)

Part II. Family and provincial government, 1756/1840

The prosperous palace

Women's worlds

Beyond Bardo

Part III. Nineteenth-century transformations

The constitution, financial reform, and the modern family

Inventing dynastic traditions: family politics of French colonialism

Conclusion.