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A Moveable Empire - Ottoman Nomads, Migrants, and Refugees (Paperback)
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A Moveable Empire - Ottoman Nomads, Migrants, and Refugees (Paperback)
Series: Studies in Modernity and National Identity
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A Moveable Empire examines the history of the Ottoman Empire
through a new lens, focusing on the migrant groups that lived
within its bounds and their changing relationship to the state's
central authorities. Unlike earlier studies that take an
evolutionary view of tribe-state relations -- casting the
development of a state as a story in which nomadic tribes give way
to settled populations -- this book argues that mobile groups
played an important role in shaping Ottoman institutions and,
ultimately, the early republican structures of modern Turkey. Over
much of the empire's long history, local interests influenced the
development of the Ottoman state as authorities sought to enlist
and accommodate the various nomadic groups in the region. In the
early years of the empire, maintaining a nomadic presence,
especially in frontier regions, was an important source of
strength. Cooperation between the imperial center and tribal
leaders provided the center with an effective way of reaching
distant parts of the empire, while allowing tribal leaders to
perpetuate their own authority and guarantee the tribes' survival
as bearers of distinct cultures and identities. This relationship
changed in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as indigenous
communities discovered new possibilities for expanding their own
economic and political power by pursuing local, regional, and even
global opportunities, independent of the Ottoman center. The loose,
flexible relationship between the Ottoman center and migrant
communities became a liability under these changing conditions, and
the Ottoman state took its first steps toward settling tribes and
controlling migrations. Finally, in the early twentieth century,
mobility took another form entirely as ethnicity-based notions of
nationality led to forced migrations.
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Imprint: |
University of Washington Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Studies in Modernity and National Identity |
Release date: |
December 2009 |
First published: |
December 2009 |
Authors: |
Resat Kasaba
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 13mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade / Trade
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Pages: |
216 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-295-98948-8 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
0-295-98948-3 |
Barcode: |
9780295989488 |
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