Abstract

Book Review: Cem Emrence. Remapping the Ottoman Middle East: Modernity, Imperial Bureaucracy and Islam. New York, NY: I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd., 2015.

Highlights

  • Chapter One outlines the dominant historiographical trends in the field of Ottoman studies, beginning in the latter half of the twentieth century

  • Cem Emrence’s, Remapping the Ottoman Middle East, is an ambitious effort to cultivate a new analytical framework to the field of Ottoman Studies that addresses variables of socioeconomic and political diversity that are often overlooked in previous studies of the Ottoman Middle East

  • The application of this new analytical framework functions both as a mean of explaining the uneven development witnessed in specific regions of the Ottoman Empire and revealing multiple, alternative paths to modernity in the region

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Introduction

Chapter One outlines the dominant historiographical trends in the field of Ottoman studies, beginning in the latter half of the twentieth century. The application of this new analytical framework functions both as a mean of explaining the uneven development witnessed in specific regions of the Ottoman Empire and revealing multiple, alternative paths to modernity in the region.

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