Ottoman Notables and Participatory Politics Tanzimat Reform in Tokat, 1839-1876

"Focussing on events in the Anatolian town of Tokat during the final two decades of the great Ottoman legal and administrative reforms known as the Tanzimat (1839-76), this book applies elements of social networking theory to analyze and assess the establishment of local governments across the Middle East. The author's key finding is that the state's efforts to centralize authority succeeded only when and where locals acted as the primary agents of change. Independent notables, such as the military a'yãan, demanded wealth and state offices in exchange for meting out reform measures according to local idioms of power. Newly created administrative bodies also offered greater social mobility to a growing multiconfessional middle-class in small towns like Tokat. The state was desperate to reform, but opportunistic provincials were eager to have it only on their own terms. Challenging false assumptions about the limited scope of participatory politics in the Middle East during the nineteenth century, Ottoman Notables and Participatory Politics will be of interest to students and scholars of Political Economy, History and Middle East Studies"--

Info autore

Dr. John K. Bragg is an assistant professor of History and Education at New Jersey City University. His research interests include political economy, handicraft industry, provincial studies, folklore, and Islamic family law. He has published a peer-reviewed chapter on Fuzuli’s Leyla and Majnun and has delivered conference papers on the nineteenth-century resettlement of Circassian refugees in Anatolia and non-Muslim legal tactics before the şer‘î courts.

Riassunto

This book examines the Ottoman Tanzimat reforms of the 19th century and their impact at the local level.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: John (Bradley University Bragg, Bragg John, John Bragg
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Copertina rigida
• Data pubblicazione: 09.04.2014
• Categoria: Saggistica > Storia > Altro; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Età moderna fino al 1918; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Teorie sociologiche
• EAN: 9780415645010
• ISBN: 978-0-415-64501-0
• Numero di pagine: 304
• Serie: SOAS/Routledge Studies on the Middle East; SOAS/Routledge Studies on the; SOAS/Routledge Studies on the Middle East; SOAS/Routledge Studies on the
• Categorie: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, HISTORY / Middle East / Turkey & Ottoman Empire, Middle East, Regional Studies, Middle Eastern history, Regional / International studies, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards, multiconfessional communities, participatory politics in Ottoman provinces, Middle Eastern legal reforms, nineteenth-century Anatolia, local elite power structures