UID:
almahu_9949481191602882
Format:
1 online resource (328 p.)
ISBN:
9781503631274
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9783110993899
Content:
The Unsettled Plain studies agrarian life in the Ottoman Empire to understand the making of the modern world. Over the course of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the environmental transformation of the Ottoman countryside became intertwined with migration and displacement. Muslim refugees, mountain nomads, families deported in the Armenian Genocide, and seasonal workers from all over the empire endured hardship, exile, and dispossession. Their settlement and survival defined new societies forged in the provincial spaces of the late Ottoman frontier. Through these movements, Chris Gratien reconstructs the remaking of Çukurova, a region at the historical juncture of Anatolia and Syria, and illuminates radical changes brought by the modern state, capitalism, war, and technology. Drawing on both Ottoman Turkish and Armenian sources, Gratien brings rural populations into the momentous events of the period: Ottoman reform, Mediterranean capitalism, the First World War, and Turkish nation-building. Through the ecological perspectives of everyday people in Çukurova, he charts how familiar facets of "idian life, like malaria, cotton cultivation, labor, and leisure, attained modern manifestations. As the history of this pivotal region hidden on the geopolitical map reveals, the remarkable ecological transformation of late Ottoman society configured the trajectory of the contemporary societies of the Middle East.
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Frontmatter --
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CONTENTS --
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NOTES FOR THE READER --
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INTRODUCTION --
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1 Upland Empire --
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2 The Stench of Progress --
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3 Second Nature in the Second Egypt --
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4 Fallowed Years --
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5 A Modern Life of Transhumance --
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --
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ARCHIVES AND LIBRARIES --
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ABBREVIATIONS AND ACRONYMS --
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NOTES --
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INDEX
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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In English.
In:
EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English, De Gruyter, 9783110993899
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EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022, De Gruyter, 9783110994810
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EBOOK PACKAGE History 2022 English, De Gruyter, 9783110992960
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EBOOK PACKAGE History 2022, De Gruyter, 9783110992939
In:
Stanford University Press Complete eBook-Package 2022, De Gruyter, 9783110766486
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9781503631274
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781503631274
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781503631274
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