Governing Property, Making the Modern State - Law, Administration and Production in Ottoman Syria

Informationen zum Autor Martha Mundy is a Reader in Anthropology at the London School of Economics. She is the author of 'Domestic Government: Kinship, Community and Polity in North Yemen' (IB Tauris, 1995). Richard Saumarez Smith is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the American University of Beirut. Klappentext Was 'modernity' in the Middle East an imported piecemeal from the West? Did Ottoman society really consist of islands of sophistication in a sea of tribal conservatism! as has often been claimed? Not only affecting the way we look at Ottoman society! this book aims to change our understanding of the relationship between East! West and modernity. Zusammenfassung Was 'modernity' in the Middle East an imported piecemeal from the West? Did Ottoman society really consist of islands of sophistication in a sea of tribal conservatism, as has often been claimed? Not only affecting the way we look at Ottoman society, this book aims to change our understanding of the relationship between East, West and modernity.

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• Authors: Martha Mundy, MS Martha Mundy, Ms. Martha Mundy, Ms. Martha Saumarez Smith Mundy, Richard Saumarez Smith, Richard Saumarez Smith
• Publisher: Tauris, I.B.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.01.2007
• EAN: 9781845112912
• ISBN: 978-1-84511-291-2
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Library of Ottoman Studies; Library of Ottoman Studies
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries