Governing Property, Making the Modern State: Law, Administration and Production in Ottoman Syria by Richard Saumarez Smith, Martha Mundy

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

Richard Saumarez Smith, Martha Mundy

304 pages • first pub 2007 (view editions)

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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 Mund...

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