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...

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1. Verfasser: Salzmann, Ariel
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Boston : Brill, 2004.
Schriftenreihe:Ottoman Empire and its heritage ; v. 28.
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Online-Zugang:DE-862
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Zusammenfassung: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 Ottoman State managed to rule large areas of the Middle East and southeastern Europe during a turbulent century. Framing much of her argument within European debates about tax farming, the author argues that the success of the Ottoman ancien regime, like that of its French counterpart, is due to the succe.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xiv, 240 pages :)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-233) and index.
ISBN:1417597607
9781417597604

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