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100 1 _aFerguson, Heather L.,
_eauthor.
_927871
245 1 4 _aThe proper order of things :
_blanguage, power, and law in Ottoman administrative discourses /
_cHeather L. Ferguson.
264 1 _aStanford, California :
_bStanford University Press,
_c[2018]
264 4 _c©2018
300 _a1 online resource (xii, 426 pages) :
_b1 illustration, 1 map
336 _aText
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_2rdacontent
337 _aComputermedien
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_2rdamedia
338 _aOnline Resource
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_2rdacarrier
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [289]-414) and index.
505 0 _aIntroduction : the structure of empire and a grammar of rule -- Part I. Establishing genres. The sovereign state : spatial and textual politics in early modern Eurasian courts -- The state of stability : the Kanunname as a genre of administrative governance -- The bureaucratic state : reforming documentary practices -- Part II. Performing practices. The brokered state : "the past is no longer the present" in the "land between the rivers" -- A state of rebellion : the reterritorialization of Ottoman sovereignty in greater Syria -- Part III. Objectifying generic politics and practices. On the perfect state : an Ottoman vision of order -- Conclusion : the archiving state.
520 _aThe "natural order of the state" was an early modern mania for the Ottoman Empire. In a time of profound and pervasive imperial transformation, the ideals of stability, proper order, and social harmony were integral to the legitimization of Ottoman power. And as Ottoman territory grew, so too did its network of written texts: a web of sultanic edicts, aimed at defining and supplementing imperial authority in the empire's disparate provinces. With this book, Heather L. Ferguson studies how this textual empire created a unique vision of Ottoman legal and social order, and how the Ottoman ruling elite, via sword and pen, articulated a claim to universal sovereignty that subverted internal challengers and external rivals. The Proper Order of Things offers the story of an empire, at once familiar and strange, told through the shifting written vocabularies of power deployed by the Ottomans in their quest to thrive within a competitive early modern environment. Ferguson transcends the question of what these documents said, revealing instead how their formulation of the "proper order of things" configured the state itself. Through this textual authority, she argues, Ottoman writers ensured the durability of their empire, creating the principles of organization on which Ottoman statecraft and authority came to rest. --
_cProvided by publisher.
542 _nAll rights reserved.
651 0 _aTurkey
_xHistory
_yOttoman Empire, 1288-1918.
_927872
650 0 _xPolitical aspects
_zTurkey
_xHistory.
_927873
650 0 _xPolitical aspects
_zTurkey
_xHistory.
_927873
650 0 _zTurkey
_xHistory.
_927874
651 0 _aTurkey
_xPolitics and government.
_927875
655 4 _aElectronic books.
733 0 _tACLS Humanities E-Book.
_nURL: http://www.humanitiesebook.org/
830 0 _aACLS Humanities E-Book.
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856 4 0 _uhttps://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb40049
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942 _cEB
500 _aE-Book-ACLS / Zugriff nur im DHI-Lesesaal
653 _aDiscourse analysis
653 _aOrder
653 _aAdministrative law
653 _aImperialism.
041 _aeng
500 _aAmerican Council of Learned Societies/ https://www.humanitiesebook.org/about/
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