ISBN:
0520225260
,
0520234820
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2005 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Edition:
A digital reproduction is available from E-Editions, a collaboration of the University of California Press and the California Digital Library's eScholarship program
Parallel Title:
Print version A Nation of Empire : The Ottoman Legacy of Turkish Modernity
DDC:
306/.09565
Keywords:
Elite (Social sciences) History
;
Turkey
;
Black Sea Coast
;
Islam and politics History
;
Turkey
;
Black Sea Coast
;
Gesellschaft
;
Militär
;
Politische Elite
;
Politischer Wandel
;
Sozialer Wandel
;
Elite (Social sciences) - Turkey - Black Sea Coast - History
;
Black Sea Coast (Turkey) - Social conditions
;
Black Sea Coast (Turkey) - Politics and government
;
Islam and politics - Turkey - Black Sea Coast - History
;
Electronic books
;
Black Sea Coast (Turkey) Social conditions
;
Black Sea Coast (Turkey) Politics and government
;
Türkei
;
Osmanisches Reich
;
Osmanen
;
Gesellschaft
;
Militär
;
Osmanisches Reich
;
Türkei
;
Of Region
;
Politische Elite
;
Politischer Wandel
;
Sozialer Wandel
;
Geschichte 1500-1960
Abstract:
As its title suggests, my book examines the imperial legacy of the Turkish Republic. By this phrase, I refer not to those fragments of the old regime that somehow survived the radical reforms carried out by the nationalist movement but to key pieces of the imperial system that became active, even formative, principles in the new regime. As I explain in the first two chapters, the discovery of such principles as a force within the public life of the nation came to me as a surprise some years after my first period of fieldwork. My training in anthropology and history had not prepared me for it, and my interlocutors in the province of Trabzon, otherwise so helpful, had been unable to lead me to it.
Abstract:
This innovative study of modern Turkey is the result of many years of ethnographic fieldwork and archival research. Michael Meeker expertly combines anthropological and historical methods to examine the transition from the Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic in a major region of the country, the eastern Black Sea coast. His most significant finding is that a state-oriented provincial oligarchy played a key role in successive programs of reform over the course of more than two hundred years of imperial and national history. As Meeker demonstrates, leading individuals backed by interpersonal
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; Part I aghas and hodjas; 1. Amnesia: Clan-Society and Nation-State; 2. Prohibition: Social Relations and Official Islam; Part II the dissemination of animperial modernity; 3. Horizons: Markets and States; 4. Empire: Gaze, Discipline, Rule; 5. Dissemination: Soldiers and Students; Part III the old state societyand the new state system; 6. A State Society: State Officials and Local Elites; 7. Blindness: A Feudal Past Without a Modern Future; 8. Scandal: Aghas and Hodjas; Part IV old modernityand new modernity; 9. Revolution: Amnesia and Prohibition
Description / Table of Contents:
10. Democracy: The Old Republic Inhabits the New Republic11. Civil Society: Coffeehouses and Cooperatives; 12. The City: Nations and Empires; References; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 397-405) and index
,
A digital reproduction is available from E-Editions, a collaboration of the University of California Press and the California Digital Library's eScholarship program
,
A digital reproduction is available from E-Editions, a collaboration of the University of California Press and the California Digital Library's eScholarship program.
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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