Governing property, making the modern state : law administration and production in Ottoman Syria /
Was "modernity" in the Middle East merely imported piecemeal from the West? Did Ottoman society really consist of islands of sophistication in a sea of tribal conservatism, as has so often been claimed? In this groundbreaking new book, Martha Mundy and Richard Saumarez Smith draw on over a...
| Основен автор: | Mundy, Martha. |
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| Други автори: | Smith, Richard Saumarez. |
| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
London :
I.B. Tauris,
2007.
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| Серия: |
Library of Ottoman studies ;
v. 9. |
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=203496 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Governing property, making the modern state. |
| Резюме: |
Was "modernity" in the Middle East merely imported piecemeal from the West? Did Ottoman society really consist of islands of sophistication in a sea of tribal conservatism, as has so often been claimed? In this groundbreaking new book, Martha Mundy and Richard Saumarez Smith draw on over a decade of primary source research to argue that, contrary to popular belief, a distinctively Ottoman process of modernization was achieved by the end of the nineteenth century with great social consequences for all who lived through it. Modernization touched women as intimately as men: the authors' careful work explores the impact of Ottoman legal reforms such as granting women equal rights to land. Mundy and Saumarez Smith have painstakingly recreated a picture of such processes through both new archival material and the testimony of surviving witnesses to the period. This book will not only affect the way we look at Ottoman society, it will change our understanding of the relationship betweenEast, West and modernity. |
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| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (xiii, 306 pages) : genealogical tables, maps. |
| Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781435603547 1435603540 1845112911 9781845112912 9780857713025 0857713027 |