Negotiating empire in the Middle East : Ottomans and Arab nomads in the modern era, 1840-1914

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Negotiating empire in the Middle East : Ottomans and Arab nomads in the modern era, 1840-1914

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Ottomans and Arab nomads in the modern era, 1840-1914

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M. Talha Çiçek

Creator

• Çiçek, M. Talha

Subject

• Bedouins -- Politics and government -- 19th century
• Bedouins -- Social conditions -- 19th century
• Central-local government relations -- Turkey -- History -- 19th century
• Imperialism
• Bedouins -- Government policy -- Turkey -- History -- 19th century
• Turkey -- Colonies | Administration
• Turkey -- History -- Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918
• Turkey -- Politics and government -- 19th century
• Middle East -- Colonization

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eng

Summary

In the early 1840s, Ottoman rulers launched a new imperial project, partly in order to reassert their authority over their lands and subjects, crucially including the Arab nomads. By examining the evolution of this relationship between the Ottoman Empire and Arab nomads in the modern era, M. Talha Çiçek puts forward a new framework to demonstrate how negotiations between the Ottomans and the Arab nomads played a part in making the modern Middle East. Reflecting on multiple aspects of Ottoman authority and governance across Syria, Iraq, Arabia, Transjordan and along their frontiers, Çiçek reveals how the relationship between the imperial centre and the nomads was not merely a brutal imposition of a strict order, but instead one of constant, complicated, and fluid negotiation. In so doing, he highlights how the responses of the nomads made a considerable impact on the ultimate outcome, transforming the imperial policies accordingly.--

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Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks