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Reading Clocks, Alla Turca (Hardcover)
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Reading Clocks, Alla Turca (Hardcover)
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Up until the end of the eighteenth century, the way Ottomans used
their clocks conformed to the inner logic of their own temporal
culture. However, this began to change rather dramatically during
the nineteenth century, as the Ottoman Empire was increasingly
assimilated into the European-dominated global economy and the
project of modern state-building began to gather momentum. In
Reading Clocks, Alla Turca, Avner Wishnitzer unravels the
complexity of Ottoman temporal culture and for the first time tells
the story of its transformation. He explains that in their attempt
to attain better surveillance capabilities and higher levels of
regularity and efficiency, various organs of the reforming Ottoman
state developed elaborate temporal constructs in which clocks
played an increasingly important role. As the reform movement
spread beyond the government apparatus, emerging groups of
officers, bureaucrats, and urban professionals incorporated novel
time-related ideas, values, and behaviors into their
self-consciously "modern" outlook and lifestyle. Acculturated in
the highly regimented environment of schools and barracks, they
came to identify efficiency and temporal regularity with progress
and the former temporal patterns with the old political order.
Drawing on a wealth of archival and literary sources, Wishnitzer's
original and highly important work presents the shifting culture of
time as an arena in which Ottoman social groups competed for
legitimacy and a medium through which the very concept of modernity
was defined. Reading Clocks, Alla Turca breaks new ground in the
study of the Middle East and presents us with a new understanding
of the relationship between time and modernity.
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