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Tocqueville in the Ottoman Empire : rival paths to the modern state /
Based on three years of archival research, this work adopts a comparative framework in its examination of one of the least understood and more paradoxical polities of modern European and Middle Eastern history: the Ottoman ancien regime. Despite a profoundly decentralized state apparatus, the Ottoma...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Boston :
Brill,
2004.
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| Series: | Ottoman Empire and its heritage ;
v. 28. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- List of Illustrations
- Preface
- List of Abbreviations
- Note on Transliteration
- Introduction: Tocqueville's Ghost
- In Search of an Archive
- The Old Régime through an Ottoman Lens
- Vocabularies of Early Modernity
- I. On a Map of Eurasia
- Edges of Empire
- From the Inside Out
- Movements of People, Commodities, and Capital
- Eurasia in Transition
- II. The Sublime Porte and the Credit Nexus
- Palace, "Porte" and Patronage
- Hierarchies of Service
- "Corporate Patrimonialism" and the Reproduction of Power.
- Deyn-ü Devlet (Debt and State): Islamicate High Finance
- Completing the Circle
- III. Government in the Vernacular
- Questions of Jurisdiction
- At the Interstices of Rural Administration
- Government in the Vernacular
- Checks and Balances
- Final Entries
- IV. Conclusion: The Paths Not Taken
- The Common Origins of the Modern State
- A Federalist Alternative?
- The Diyarbekir Commune of 1819
- Of Democracy and the New Despotism
- Glossary
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
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- U
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- W
- Z
- Bibliography
- Index
- A
- B
- C.
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
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- Q
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- Y
- Z.