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The proper order of things : language, power, and law in Ottoman administrative discourses /
The "natural order of the state" was an early modern mania for the Ottoman Empire. In a time of profound and pervasive imperial transformation, the ideals of stability, proper order, and social harmony were integral to the legitimization of Ottoman power. And as Ottoman territory grew, so...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Stanford, California :
Stanford University Press,
2018.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : the structure of empire and a grammar of rule
- The sovereign state : spatial and textual politics in early modern Eurasian courts
- The state of stability : the kanunname as a genre of administrative governance
- The bureaucratic state : reforming documentary practices
- The brokered state : "the past is no longer the present" in the "land between the rivers"
- A state of rebellion : the re-territorialization of Ottoman sovereignty in greater Syria
- On the perfect state : an Ottoman vision of order
- Conclusion : the archiving state.