04658nam 22010814a 450 991045542070332120240410063438.01-282-75913-297866127591300-520-92912-81-59734-770-110.1525/9780520929128(CKB)111021305171006(EBL)223523(OCoLC)475928266(SSID)ssj0000208244(PQKBManifestationID)11196599(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000208244(PQKBWorkID)10239180(PQKB)10029332(StDuBDS)EDZ0000083904(OCoLC)52872791(MdBmJHUP)muse30563(DE-B1597)520721(DE-B1597)9780520929128(Au-PeEL)EBL223523(CaPaEBR)ebr10050794(CaONFJC)MIL275913(MiAaPQ)EBC223523(EXLCZ)9911102130517100620010717d2002 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierA nation of empire[electronic resource] the Ottoman legacy of Turkish modernity /Michael E. Meeker1st ed.Berkeley University of California Pressc20021 online resource (xxviii, 420 pages) illustrationsDescription based upon print version of record.0-520-23482-0 0-520-22526-0 Includes bibliographical references (p. 397-405) and index.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.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 oligarchy was produced and reproduced along the eastern Black Sea coast, Meeker integrates a contemporary ethnographic study of public life in towns and villages with a historical study of official documents, consular reports, and travel narratives. A Nation of Empire provides anthropologists, historians, and students of Eastern Europe and the Middle East with a new understanding of the complexities and contradictions of modern Turkish experience.Elite (Social sciences)TurkeyBlack Sea CoastHistoryIslam and politicsTurkeyBlack Sea CoastHistoryBlack Sea Coast (Turkey)Social conditionsBlack Sea Coast (Turkey)Politics and governmentagha families.agriculture.amnesia.army.belief.coastal region.empire.faith.family life.feudal system.feudalism.islam.islamic world.islamic.middle east.middle eastern.military.modern world.modernity.nation state.new republic.old republic.ottoman.prohibition.regional.religion.religious studies.social justice.social progress.soldiers.turkey.turkish.Elite (Social sciences)History.Islam and politicsHistory.306/.09565Meeker Michael E299640MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910455420703321A nation of empire2468080UNINA