Frontiers of the State in the Late Ottoman Empire - Transjordan, 1850-1921

Zusammenfassung Eugene Rogan documents the case of Transjordan to provide a theoretically informed account of how the Ottoman state restructured itself during the last decades of empire. In so doing! he explores the idea of frontier as a geographical and cultural boundary and sheds light on the processes of state formation. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. The Transjordan frontier in 1850; 2. Ottomans: establishing a permanent presence in Transjordan; 3. Settlement: colonization, the application of the 1858 land law, and their fiscal consequences; 4. Merchants; 5. Missionaries; 6. Accommodation: rapid social change in Ottoman Transjordan; 7. Resistance: popular rebellion and the 1910 Karak Revolt; 8. The First World War; Epilogue.

Product details

• Authors: Eugene L. Rogan, Eugene L. (University of Oxford) Rogan
• Assisted by: Julia A. Clancy-Smith (Editor), Charles Tripp (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.12.1999
• EAN: 9780521663120
• ISBN: 978-0-521-66312-0
• No. of pages: 292
• Series: Cambridge Middle East Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous