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Remapping the Ottoman Middle East: Modernity, Imperial Bureaucracy and Islam
Cem Emrence
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Description for Remapping the Ottoman Middle East: Modernity, Imperial Bureaucracy and Islam
Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVT; 1QDT; 3JH; 3JJC; HBJF1; HBLL. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 25. Weight in Grams: 454.
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, ... Read more
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, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784531614
SKU
V9781784531614
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About Cem Emrence
Cem Emrence is a post-doctoral fellow of history at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. His research focuses on the Ottoman Empire and modern Turkey. His work has appeared in many academic journals including the Journal of Global History, Middle East Studies Association Bulletin, Middle Eastern Studies, Turkish Studies and Comparative Sociology. He teaches courses on the Ottoman Empire, Comparative Empires and ... Read more
Reviews for Remapping the Ottoman Middle East: Modernity, Imperial Bureaucracy and Islam
'In Remapping the Ottoman Middle East, Cem Emrence analyzes the paradigms in which late ottoman history has been written. His original contribution is the conceptualisation of the body of work produced in recent decades on social and cultural history, and the analysis of the latter's linkages to the earlier currents of modernisation and dependency studies. Emrence approaches the relatively new ... Read more