Tocqueville in the Ottoman Empire: Rival Paths to the Modern State (Ottoman Empire and Its Heritage)

Contents......Page 8
List of Illustrations......Page 10
Preface......Page 12
List of Abbreviations......Page 14
Note on Transliteration......Page 16
Introduction: Tocqueville’s Ghost......Page 17
In Search of an Archive......Page 22
The Old Régime through an Ottoman Lens......Page 29
Vocabularies of Early Modernity......Page 40
I. On a Map of Eurasia......Page 47
Edges of Empire......Page 55
From the Inside Out......Page 69
Movements of People, Commodities, and Capital......Page 77
Eurasia in Transition......Page 88
II. The Sublime Porte and the Credit Nexus......Page 92
Palace, “Porte” and Patronage......Page 95
Hierarchies of Service......Page 109
“Corporate Patrimonialism” and the Reproduction of Power......Page 119
Deyn-ü Devlet (Debt and State): Islamicate High Finance......Page 127
Completing the Circle......Page 135
III. Government in the Vernacular......Page 139
Questions of Jurisdiction......Page 144
At the Interstices of Rural Administration......Page 156
Government in the Vernacular......Page 167
Checks and Balances......Page 180
Final Entries......Page 189
IV. Conclusion: The Paths Not Taken......Page 193
The Common Origins of the Modern State......Page 196
A Federalist Alternative?......Page 204
The Diyarbekir Commune of 1819......Page 208
Of Democracy and the New Despotism......Page 211
K......Page 226
Z......Page 227
Bibliography......Page 228
C......Page 260
F......Page 261
L......Page 262
P......Page 263
T......Page 264
Z......Page 265