Tocqueville in the Ottoman Empire: Rival Paths to the Modern State - Couverture rigide

Salzmann, Ariel

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 9004108874 ISBN 13 : 9789004108875

Editeur : Brill, 2003

Synopsis

This volume explores the transition from the old regime to modern forms of sovereignty in the Middle East. By rereading Tocqueville's classic, The Old Régime and the French Revolution, through an Ottoman prism this study probes the unresolved paradoxes in his analysis of institutional change while documenting an old regime that has remained in the shadows of modern history. Each section of the book explores a specific dimension of Ottoman sovereignty - space, hierarchy, and vernacular governance - through a detailed examination of a particular 18th century document. An Ottoman perspective on the eighteenth century not only furnishes critical pieces of the old-regime puzzle. It also illustrates how an uncritical reception of Tocqueville's model of modernization has obscured the ongoing interaction between the "Eurasian" and Westphalian state systems and parallel processes of sociopolitical change.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Ariel Salzmann, Ph.D. (1995) in History, Columbia University is Assistant Professor of World and Islamic History at Queen's University (Canada). She has published on topics concerning Ottoman political economy and governance, including "Citizens in Search of a State: The Limits of Political Participation in the Late Ottoman Empire, 1808-1913" (Extending Citizenship, Reconfiguring States, Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 1999).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Brill
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9004108874
• ISBN 13: 9789004108875
• Reliure: Cuir/luxe
• Nombre de pages: 268
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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