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Empire, Islam, and politics of difference : Ottoman rule in Yemen, 1849-1919 /

Historians of the Middle East in the long nineteenth century have often considered empire-building the preserve of European powers. This book revises this picture by exploring how the Ottomans re-conquered and ruled large parts of present-day Yemen between 1849 and the end of World War I, after more...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Kuehn, Thomas
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011.
Series:Ottoman Empire and its heritage ; v. 48.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The 'return of the Turks': the campaigns of 1871-73 and the context of Tanzimat imperialism
  • Imperial visions : knowledge production, empire, and the creation of difference, 1849-75
  • 'According to their customs and dispositions' : elaborating politics of difference in Ottoman Yemen, 1874-91
  • Struggling for a righteous order : the rise of the Zaydi imams and the reconfiguration of difference, 1890-1908
  • An imperial borderland as colony? the Da"an agreement and the reaffirmation of colonial Ottomanism, 1905-19.