| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 240 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps (1 folded) |
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The Ottoman Empire and its heritage ; v. 28 |
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Ottoman Empire and its heritage ; v. 28.
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| Contents |
List of Illustrations -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- Note on Transliteration -- Introduction: Tocqueville's Ghost -- In Search of an Archive -- The Old Régime through an Ottoman Lens -- Vocabularies of Early Modernity -- I. On a Map of Eurasia -- Edges of Empire -- From the Inside Out -- Movements of People, Commodities, and Capital -- Eurasia in Transition -- II. The Sublime Porte and the Credit Nexus -- Palace, "Porte" and Patronage -- Hierarchies of Service -- "Corporate Patrimonialism" and the Reproduction of Power |
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Deyn-ü Devlet (Debt and State): Islamicate High Finance -- Completing the Circle -- III. Government in the Vernacular -- Questions of Jurisdiction -- At the Interstices of Rural Administration -- Government in the Vernacular -- Checks and Balances -- Final Entries -- IV. Conclusion: The Paths Not Taken -- The Common Origins of the Modern State -- A Federalist Alternative? -- The Diyarbekir Commune of 1819 -- Of Democracy and the New Despotism -- Glossary -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C |
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D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z |
| Summary |
Based on three years of archival research, this work adopts a comparative framework in its examination of one of the least understood and more paradoxical polities of modern European and Middle Eastern history: the Ottoman ancien regime. Despite a profoundly decentralized state apparatus, the Ottoman State managed to rule large areas of the Middle East and southeastern Europe during a turbulent century. Framing much of her argument within European debates about tax farming, the author argues that the success of the Ottoman ancien regime, like that of its French counterpart, is due to the succe |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-233) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1805-1859 -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1805-1859 fast |
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Tocqueville, Alexis de 1805-1859 gnd |
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Nation-state.
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nations.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- General.
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Nation-state
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| SUBJECT |
Turkey -- History -- Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85138802
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| Subject |
Turkey
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Osmanisches Reich
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1417597607 |
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9781417597604 |
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