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UNINA9910455420703321 |
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Autore |
Meeker Michael E |
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Titolo |
A nation of empire : the Ottoman legacy of Turkish modernity / / Michael E. Meeker |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2002 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-75913-2 |
9786612759130 |
0-520-92912-8 |
1-59734-770-1 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xxviii, 420 pages) : illustrations |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Elite (Social sciences) - Turkey - Black Sea Coast - History |
Islam and politics - Turkey - Black Sea Coast - History |
Black Sea Coast (Turkey) Social conditions |
Black Sea Coast (Turkey) Politics and government |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 397-405) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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AGHAS AND HODJAS :THE REPUBLICAN DISTRICT OF OF -- THE DISSEMINATION OF AN IMPERIAL MODERNITY : THE OTTOMAN PROVINCE OF TRABZON -- THE OLD STATE SOCIETY AND THE NEW STATE SYSTEM: THE OTTOMAN PROVINCE OF TRABZON -- OLD MODERNITY AND NEW MODERNITY: THE REPUBLICAN TOWN OF OF. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This innovative study of modern Turkey is the result of many years of ethnographic fieldwork and archival research. Michael Meeker expertly combines anthropological and historical methods to examine the transition from the Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic in a major region of the country, the eastern Black Sea coast. His most significant finding is that a state-oriented provincial oligarchy played a key role in successive programs of reform over the course of more than two hundred years of imperial and national history. As Meeker demonstrates, leading individuals backed by interpersonal networks determined the outcome of the modernizing process, first during the westernizing period of the Empire, then during the revolutionary period of the Republic.To understand how such a state-oriented provincial |
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