LEADER 03932nam 22005414a 4500001 ssj0000600773 003 WaSeSS 005 20191012081120.0 006 m d 007 cr n 008 101202s2012 nyuab sb 001 0 eng d 010 2010048747 020 9780415884648 (hardback) 020 0415884640 (hardback) 035 (WaSeSS)ssj0000600773 040 DLC |cDLC |dYDX |dBTCTA |dYDXCP |dBWX |dDLC |dWaSeSS 042 pcc 049 EREENEHH 050 00 JC201 |b.B58 2012 082 00 320.1 |222 084 HIS037060HIS055000HIS026000 |2bisacsh 100 1 Blumı, Isa, |d1969- |?UNAUTHORIZED 245 10 Foundations of modernity |h[electronic resource] : |bhuman agency and the imperial state / |cIsa Blumi. 260 New York : |bRoutledge, 300 xvi, 271 p. : |bill., maps ; |c24 cm. 490 1 Routledge studies in modern history ; |v9 504 Includes bibliographical references and index. 506 Available only to authorized users. 520 "Investigating how a number of modern empires transform over the long century (1789-1914) as a consequence of their struggle for ascendancy in the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East, Foundations of Modernity: Human Agency and the Imperial State moves the study of the modern empire towards a comparative, trans-regional analysis of events along the Ottoman frontiers: Western Balkans, the Persian Gulf and Yemen. This inter-disciplinary approach of studying events at different ends of the Ottoman Empire challenges previous emphasis on Europe as the only source of change and highlights the progression of modern imperial states.The book introduces an entirely new analytical approach to the study of modern state power and the social consequences to the interaction between long-ignored "historical agents" like pirates, smugglers, refugees, and the rural poor. In this respect, the roots of the most fundamental institutions and bureaucratic practices associated with the modern state prove to be the by-products of certain kinds of productive exchange long categorized in negative terms in post-colonial and mainstream scholarship. Such a challenge to conventional methods of historical and social scientific analysis is reinforced by the novel use of the work of Louis Althusser, Talal Asad, William Connolly and Frederick Cooper, whose challenges to scholarly conventions will prove helpful in changing how we understand the origins of our modern world and thus talk about Modernity. This book offers a methodological and historiographic intervention meant to challenge conventional studies of the modern era"--Provided by publisher. 538 Mode of access: World Wide Web 650 0 State, The |xHistory |y19th century. |=^A61063 650 0 History, Modern |y19th century. |=^A40297 650 0 Social systems |xHistory. |=^A6577 651 0 Middle East |xHistory |y19th century. |=^A32694 651 0 Turkey |xHistory |y19th century. |=^A236619 651 0 Mediterranean Region |xHistory |y19th century. |=^A24685 655 0 Electronic books. |=^A491897 830 0 Routledge studies in modern history ; |v9. |=^A719394 856 40 |zFull text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/eastcarolina/detail.action?docID=957863 947 (OCoLC)ocn607983304 949 CLICK ON WEB ADDRESS |wASIS |hJOYNER188 949 CLICK ON WEB ADDRESS |wASIS |hHSL77 949 CLICK ON WEB ADDRESS |wASIS |hJMUSIC60 596 1 3 4 998 5192139