Governing Property, Making the Modern State: Law, Administration and Production in Ottoman Syria

by Richard Saumarez Smith and Martha Mundy

Was 'modernity' in the Middle East merely imported piecemeal from the West? Did Ottoman society really consist of islands of sophistication in a sea of tribal conservatism, as has so often been claimed? In this groundbreaking new book, Martha Mundy and Richard Saumarez Smith draw on over a decade of primary source research to argue that, contrary to such stereotypes, a distinctively Ottoman process of modernisation was achieved by the end of the nineteenth...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845112911
• ISBN13: 9781845112912
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.2"