Remapping the Ottoman Middle East : Modernity, Imperial Bureaucracy and the Islamic State.
Title:
Remapping the Ottoman Middle East : Modernity, Imperial Bureaucracy and the Islamic State.
Author:
Emrence, Cem.
ISBN:
9780857720993
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (207 pages)
Series:
Library of Ottoman Studies
Contents:
Cover -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Note on Transliteration -- Introduction -- Method -- Imperial Paths -- Theory -- Background and Plan of the Book -- 1 Historiography -- Modernization Approaches -- Macro Models -- Bargaining Perspectives -- Conclusions -- 2 Coast -- The Making of a Globally-Connected Economy -- Middle Class Hegemony -- Economic Contention -- Conclusions -- 3 Interior -- An Urban Muslim Bloc -- Creating Regional Markets -- Patrimonial Tensions -- Conclusions -- 4 Frontier -- Politics of Emergency -- Collecting Protection Money -- Rebellious Repertoires -- Conclusions -- 5 Routes of Transformation, 1908-1922 -- The New Imperial Class -- Nationalizing the Coast -- Failed Bargains in the Interior -- Making Frontiers Independent -- Conclusions -- Conclusion -- Late Ottoman Trajectories -- Ottoman Insights -- A New Research Agenda -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
As a result of the formation of the modern Turkish state, nationalist narratives of the Ottoman Empire's collapse are commonplace. Remapping the Ottoman Middle East, on the other hand, examines alternative and disparate routes to modernity during the nineteenth century. Pursuing a comparison of different regions of the empire, this book demonstrates that the Ottoman imperial universe was shaped by three distinct and simultaneous narratives: market relations in its coastal areas; imperial bureaucracy in the cities of central Anatolia, Syria and Palestine; and Islamic trust networks in the frontier regions of the Arabian Peninsula. In weaving together these localized developments, Cem Emrence departs from narratives of state centralism and suggests that a comprehensive way of understanding the late Ottoman world and its legacy should start from exploring regionally-constituted and network-based historical trajectories. Introducing a persuasive new model for understanding the late Ottoman world, this book will be essential reading for historians of the Ottoman Empire.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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