Umfang:
Online-Ressource
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg. 2005 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Ausgabe:
A digital reproduction is available from E-Editions, a collaboration of the University of California Press and the California Digital Library's eScholarship program
ISBN:
0520225260
,
0520234820
Inhalt:
As its title suggests, my book examines the imperial legacy of the Turkish Republic. By this phrase, I refer not to those fragments of the old regime that somehow survived the radical reforms carried out by the nationalist movement but to key pieces of the imperial system that became active, even formative, principles in the new regime. As I explain in the first two chapters, the discovery of such principles as a force within the public life of the nation came to me as a surprise some years after my first period of fieldwork. My training in anthropology and history had not prepared me for it, and my interlocutors in the province of Trabzon, otherwise so helpful, had been unable to lead me to it.
Inhalt:
This innovative study of modern Turkey is the result of many years of ethnographic fieldwork and archival research. Michael Meeker expertly combines anthropological and historical methods to examine the transition from the Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic in a major region of the country, the eastern Black Sea coast. His most significant finding is that a state-oriented provincial oligarchy played a key role in successive programs of reform over the course of more than two hundred years of imperial and national history. As Meeker demonstrates, leading individuals backed by interpersonal
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 397-405) and index
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A digital reproduction is available from E-Editions, a collaboration of the University of California Press and the California Digital Library's eScholarship program
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Cover; Contents; Part I aghas and hodjas; 1. Amnesia: Clan-Society and Nation-State; 2. Prohibition: Social Relations and Official Islam; Part II the dissemination of animperial modernity; 3. Horizons: Markets and States; 4. Empire: Gaze, Discipline, Rule; 5. Dissemination: Soldiers and Students; Part III the old state societyand the new state system; 6. A State Society: State Officials and Local Elites; 7. Blindness: A Feudal Past Without a Modern Future; 8. Scandal: Aghas and Hodjas; Part IV old modernityand new modernity; 9. Revolution: Amnesia and Prohibition
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10. Democracy: The Old Republic Inhabits the New Republic11. Civil Society: Coffeehouses and Cooperatives; 12. The City: Nations and Empires; References; Index
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A digital reproduction is available from E-Editions, a collaboration of the University of California Press and the California Digital Library's eScholarship program.
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780520234826
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe A Nation of Empire : The Ottoman Legacy of Turkish Modernity
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Osmanen
;
Gesellschaft
;
Militär
;
Osmanisches Reich
;
Türkei
;
Of
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Politische Elite
;
Politischer Wandel
;
Sozialer Wandel
;
Geschichte 1500-1960
URL:
http://www.h-net.org/review/hrev-a0c7z8-aa
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