| Studies on Ottoman Social and Political History: Selected Articles and Essays Contributor(s): Karpat, Kemal H. (Author) |
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ISBN: 9004121013 ISBN-13: 9789004121010 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $418.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2002 Annotation: This book comprises a collection of articles and essays published in a variety of journals during the past decades, which seek to identify and analyze mainly the internal forces which transformed the Ottoman State into a variety of national states in the Balkans and the Middle East. Kemal H. Karpat studies the transformation of "miri (state) lands into private property, the subsequent rise of a new propertied middle class in the countryside with its own stratum of intellectuals and notables as preparing the rise of a civil order which embraced or rejected as the situation demanded the old statist philosophy and the new bureaucracy. The book studies migration as a key factor which brought many Muslim ethnic groups into Anatolia that produced a social restructuring and new modern Ottoman-Islamic-Turkish culture that formed the ethno-cultural roots of Republican Turkey. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Architecture | Interior Design - General - Social Science | Sociology - General - Social Science | Anthropology - General |
| Dewey: 956.101 |
| LCCN: 2002023960 |
| Series: Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East an |
| Physical Information: 860 pages |
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| Publisher Description: This book comprises a collection of articles and essays published in a variety of journals during the past decades, which seek to identify and analyze mainly the internal forces which transformed the Ottoman State into a variety of national states in the Balkans and the Middle East. Kemal H. Karpat studies the transformation of miri (state) lands into private property, the subsequent rise of a new propertied middle class in the countryside with its own stratum of intellectuals and notables as preparing the rise of a civil order which embraced or rejected as the situation demanded the old statist philosophy and the new bureaucracy. The book studies migration as a key factor which brought many Muslim ethnic groups into Anatolia that produced a social restructuring and new modern Ottoman-Islamic-Turkish culture that formed the ethno-cultural roots of Republican Turkey. |