The Shiites of Lebanon under Ottoman Rule, 1516–1788 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Shiites of Lebanon under Ottoman Rule, 1516–1788 write by Stefan Winter. This book was released on 2010-03-11. The Shiites of Lebanon under Ottoman Rule, 1516–1788 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Shiites of Lebanon under Ottoman Rule provides an original perspective on the history of the Shiites as a constituent of Lebanese society. Winter presents a history of the community before the 19th century, based primarily on Ottoman Turkish documents. From these, he examines how local Shiites were well integrated in the Ottoman system of rule, and that Lebanon as an autonomous entity only developed in the course of the 18th century through the marginalization and then violent elimination of the indigenous Shiite leaderships by an increasingly powerful Druze-Maronite emirate. As such the book recovers the Ottoman-era history of a group which has always been neglected in chronicle-based works, and in doing so, fundamentally calls into question the historic place within 'Lebanon' of what has today become the country's largest and most activist sectarian community.
The Shiites of Lebanon Under Ottoman Rule, 1516-1788
The Shiites of Lebanon Under Ottoman Rule, 1516-1788 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Shiites of Lebanon Under Ottoman Rule, 1516-1788 write by Stefan Winter. This book was released on 2010. The Shiites of Lebanon Under Ottoman Rule, 1516-1788 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Empires and Bureaucracy in World History
Empires and Bureaucracy in World History - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Empires and Bureaucracy in World History write by Peter Crooks. This book was released on 2016-08-03. Empires and Bureaucracy in World History available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How did empires rule different peoples across vast expanses of space and time? And how did small numbers of imperial bureaucrats govern large numbers of subordinated peoples? Empires and Bureaucracy in World History seeks answers to these fundamental problems in imperial studies by exploring the power and limits of bureaucracy. The book is pioneering in bringing together historians of antiquity and the Middle Ages with scholars of post-medieval European empires, while a genuinely world-historical perspective is provided by chapters on China, the Incas and the Ottomans. The editors identify a paradox in how bureaucracy operated on the scale of empires and so help explain why some empires endured for centuries while, in the contemporary world, empires fail almost before they begin. By adopting a cross-chronological and world-historical approach, the book challenges the abiding association of bureaucratic rationality with 'modernity' and the so-called 'Rise of the West'.
Women and Slavery in the Late Ottoman Empire
Women and Slavery in the Late Ottoman Empire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women and Slavery in the Late Ottoman Empire write by Madeline Zilfi. This book was released on 2010-03-22. Women and Slavery in the Late Ottoman Empire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines gender politics through slavery and social regulation in the Ottoman Empire during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Conversion and Apostasy in the Late Ottoman Empire
Conversion and Apostasy in the Late Ottoman Empire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Conversion and Apostasy in the Late Ottoman Empire write by Selim Deringil. This book was released on 2012-08-27. Conversion and Apostasy in the Late Ottoman Empire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire traditional religious structures crumbled as the empire itself began to fall apart. The state's answer to schism was regulation and control, administered in the form of a number of edicts in the early part of the century. It is against this background that different religious communities and individuals negotiated survival by converting to Islam when their political interests or their lives were at stake. As the century progressed, however, conversion was no longer sufficient to guarantee citizenship and property rights as the state became increasingly paranoid about its apostates and what it perceived as their 'denationalization'. The book tells the story of the struggle between the Ottoman State, the Great Powers and a multitude of evangelical organizations, shedding light on current flash-points in the Arab world and the Balkans, offering alternative perspectives on national and religious identity and the interconnection between the two.
