Frontiers of the state in the late Ottoman Empire

Frontiers of the state in the late Ottoman Empire

by Eugene L. Rogan

Book 12 of Cambridge Middle East studies --

1999
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"Until the mid-nineteenth century, Transjordan was a frontier region of the Ottoman province of Syria. In a time of European challenges to Ottoman integrity, the region's strategic location, linking Syria to Palestine and Arabia, motivated the Ottoman state to extend direct rule over this region. Using new archival material from Ottoman, Arabic and European sources, Eugene Rogan documents the case of Transjordan to provide a theoretically informed and articulate account of how the Ottoman state restructured and redefined itself during the last decades of its empire."--BOOK JACKET.

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    How does Rogan’s portrayal of Transjordan challenge or complicate the traditional narrative of the late Ottoman Empire as simply "the sick man of Europe" in terminal decline?

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    In what ways does the transition from indirect rule to direct Ottoman administration mirror the bureaucratic expansion of modern states in your own understanding of history?

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    Rogan highlights how the Ottoman state utilized land registration and taxation to extend its control; how do you think formal documentation and legal systems are still used by modern governments to shape populations and territories today?

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