LEADER 04420oam 2200733I 450 001 9910826954703321 005 20240516195026.0 010 $a1-136-71813-3 010 $a1-283-44202-7 010 $a9786613442024 010 $a0-203-81587-4 010 $a1-136-71814-1 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203815878 035 $a(CKB)2550000000089196 035 $a(EBL)957863 035 $a(OCoLC)798531583 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000600773 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11939954 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000600773 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10600607 035 $a(PQKB)10898957 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC957863 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL957863 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10531820 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL344202 035 $a(OCoLC)782917458 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000089196 100 $a20180706d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aFoundations of modernity $ehuman agency and the imperial state /$fIsa Blumi 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2012. 215 $a1 online resource (283 p.) 225 1 $aRoutledge studies in modern history ;$v9 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-138-30697-5 311 $a0-415-88464-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aFront Cover; Foundations of Modernity; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Figures; List of Maps; List of Abbreviations; Preface and Acknowledgements; Introduction: Relocating the Great Transformation in the Balkans and Arabia; 1. The Local Scramble for Ascendancy and the Demise of the "Era"; 2. Demarcating Imperial Boundaries and the Rise of Difference; 3. Beyond the Frontier: Subduing the Agents of Change; 4. Diasporic Agency and the Shifts in the Possibilities of Empire; 5. Capitalizing Empires and the Political Economy of Reform; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index 330 $a"Investigating how a number of modern empires transform over the long century (1789-1914) as a consequence of their struggle for ascendancy in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East, Foundations of Modernity: Human Agency and the Imperial State moves the study of the modern empire towards a comparative, trans-regional analysis of events along the Ottoman frontiers: Western Balkans, the Persian Gulf and Yemen. This inter-disciplinary approach of studying events at different ends of the Ottoman Empire challenges previous emphasis on Europe as the only source of change and highlights the progression of modern imperial states.The book introduces an entirely new analytical approach to the study of modern state power and the social consequences to the interaction between long-ignored "historical agents" like pirates, smugglers, refugees, and the rural poor. In this respect, the roots of the most fundamental institutions and bureaucratic practices associated with the modern state prove to be the by-products of certain kinds of productive exchange long categorized in negative terms in post-colonial and mainstream scholarship. Such a challenge to conventional methods of historical and social scientific analysis is reinforced by the novel use of the work of Louis Althusser, Talal Asad, William Connolly and Frederick Cooper, whose challenges to scholarly conventions will prove helpful in changing how we understand the origins of our modern world and thus talk about Modernity. This book offers a methodological and historiographic intervention meant to challenge conventional studies of the modern era"--$cProvided by publisher. 410 0$aRoutledge studies in modern history ;$v9. 606 $aState, The$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aHistory, Modern$y19th century 606 $aSocial systems$xHistory 607 $aMiddle East$xHistory$y19th century 607 $aTurkey$xHistory$y19th century 607 $aMediterranean Region$xHistory$y19th century 615 0$aState, The$xHistory 615 0$aHistory, Modern 615 0$aSocial systems$xHistory. 676 $a320.1 686 $aHIS037060$aHIS055000$aHIS026000$2bisacsh 700 $aBlumi$b Isa$f1969-,$0523741 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910826954703321 996 $aFoundations of modernity$93958599 997 $aUNINA