I.B.Tauris, Date: 2007-03-15. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 2007. I.B.Tauris ISBN 1845112911 9781845112912 [US]

I.B.Tauris, Date: 2007-03-15. Hardcover. Like New. 2007. I.B.Tauris ISBN 1845112911 9781845112912 [US]

ISBN10: 1845112911, ISBN13: 9781845112912, [publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, London] Hardcover Hardcover. 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 Mundy and Richard Saumarez Smith draw on over a decade of primary source research to argue that, contrary to such stereotypes, a distinctively Ottoman process of modernisation was achieved by the end of the nineteenth century with great social consequences for all who lived through it. Modernisation touched women as intimately as men: the authors' careful work explores the impact of Ottoman legal reforms, such as granting women equal rights to land. Mundy and Saumarez Smith have painstakingly recreated a picture of such processes through both new archival material and the testimony of surviving witnesses to the period. This book will not only affect the way we look at Ottoman society, it will change our understanding of the relationship between East, West and modernity. Was 'modernity' in the Middle East an imported piecemeal from the West? Did Ottoman society really consist of islands of sophistication in a sea of tribal conservatism, as has often been claimed? Not only affecting the way we look at Ottoman society, this book aims to change our understanding of the relationship between East, ...
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ISBN10: 1845112911, ISBN13: 9781845112912, [publisher: I.B. Tauris] Hardcover
[Castle Donington, DERBY, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2007]
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ISBN10: 1845112911, ISBN13: 9781845112912, [publisher: I.B. Tauris] Hardcover
[Dallas, TX, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2007]

ISBN10: 1845112911, ISBN13: 9781845112912, [publisher: I.B.Tauris] Hardcover Good - Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name - GOOD Standard-sized.
[Harrisburg, PA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2007]

New York Bloomsbury Publishing PLC 2007 Hard cover New. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 320 p. Contains: Illustrations, color, Tables, black & white, Maps, Figures. Library of Ottoman Studies, 9.

ISBN10: 1845112911, ISBN13: 9781845112912, [publisher: PAPERBACKSHOP UK IMPORT] Hardcover Was modernity in the Middle East an imported piecemeal from the West? Did Ottoman society really consist of islands of sophistication in a sea of tribal conservatism, as has often been claimed? Not only affecting the way we look at Ottoman society, this b.
[Greven, Germany] [Publication Year: 2007]
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