Format:
1 Online-Ressource
ISBN:
9789047400141
,
9789004108875
Series Statement:
The Ottoman Empire and its Heritage 28
Content:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Tocqueville in the Ottoman Empire : Rival Paths to the Modern State Leiden : BRILL, 2004 ISBN 9789004108875
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1163/9789047400141
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