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Moveable Empire
Resat Kasaba
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Description for Moveable Empire
Paperback. Examines the history of the Ottoman Empire by focusing on the migrant groups that lived within its bounds and their changing relationship to the state's central authorities. Series: Studies in Modernity and National Identity. Num Pages: 216 pages, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1DVT; 1QDT; HBJD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 151 x 13. Weight in Grams: 290.
A Moveable Empire examines the history of the Ottoman Empire through a new lens, focusing on the migrant groups that lived within its bounds and their changing relationship to the state's central authorities. Unlike earlier studies that take an evolutionary view of tribe-state relations -- casting the development of a state as a story in which nomadic tribes give way to settled populations -- this book argues that mobile groups played an important role in shaping Ottoman institutions and, ultimately, the early republican structures of modern Turkey.
Over much of the empire's long history, local interests influenced the development ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
Series
Studies in Modernity and National Identity
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Seattle, United States
ISBN
9780295989488
SKU
V9780295989488
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About Resat Kasaba
Resat Kasaba is Henry M. Jackson Professor of international studies at the University of Washington. His previous books include The Ottoman Empire and the World Economy and Rethinking Modernity and National Identity in Turkey.
Reviews for Moveable Empire
". . . a vital, easily accessible, teaching supplement to stress larger points we all try to make about the diversity of peoples that the Ottoman experience encompassed."
Isa Blumi
Insight Turkey
"His take on 600 years of Ottoman dynamism challenges specialists to re-think epistemological paradigms, illustrates to the general scholar the necessity for new methodological tools, ... Read more
Isa Blumi
Insight Turkey
"His take on 600 years of Ottoman dynamism challenges specialists to re-think epistemological paradigms, illustrates to the general scholar the necessity for new methodological tools, ... Read more