GOVERNING PROPERTY, MAKING THE MODERN STATE: LAW, ADMINISTRATION AND PRODUCTION IN OTTOMAN SYRIA

"Was 'modernity' in the Middle East merely imported piecemeal from the West? Did Ottoman society really consist of islands of sophistication in a sea of tribal conservatism, as has so often been claimed? In this groundbreaking new book, Martha Mundy and Richard Saumarez Smith draw on over a decade of primary source research to argue that, contrary to such stereotypes, a distinctively Ottoman process of modernisation was achieved by the end of the nineteenth century with great social consequences for all who lived through it. Modernisation touched women as intimately as men: the authors' careful work explores the impact of Ottoman legal reforms such as granting women equal rights to land. Mundy and Saumarez Smith have painstakingly recreated a picture of such processes through both new archival material and the testimony of surviving witnesses to the period. This book will not only affect the way we look at Ottoman society, it will change our understanding of the relationship between East, West and modernity."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

שנה

2007

שפה

English

הוצאה

I. B. Tauris

מהדורות

1

עמודים

304

ISBN

9781845112912

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