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Nineteenth Century Local Governance in Ottoman Bulgaria : Politics in Provincial Councils / M. Safa Saracoglu.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Edinburgh Studies on the Ottoman Empire : ESOEPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resource (216 p.) : 12 B/W illustrations maps, graphs, charts and photographsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781474430999
  • 9781474431019
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 320.9/499/09034
LOC classification:
  • JN9605 .S37 2018
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Maps, Figures and Tables -- Abbreviations -- Preface -- Maps -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Contextualising the Nineteenth Century -- 3. Sitting Together: Local Councils and the Politics of Election in the County of Vidin -- 4. Once Inside the Chamber . . . Participation in the Politics of Local Administration -- 5. Writing Politics: Ottoman Governmentality and the Language of Reports -- 6. ‘Cattle Thieves’: Refugee Settlement, Ottoman Governmentality and Biopolitics -- 7. Conclusion -- Select Bibliography -- Index
Summary: A comprehensive history of the provincial administrative and judiciary structure in Ottoman-governed BulgariaDraws on provincial documents from Bulgarian archives to reveal a well-connected provincial political and economic environment in which the local elite played important roles alongside state officials.Provides a comprehensive discussion of the provincial bureaucratic and judiciary structure in Ottoman Balkans in the 19th century.Explains the investment of the local elite in the 19th century transformation of the Ottoman Empire.Provides an account of the main political structures in a key Bulgarian province at the eve of Bulgarian independence and in the midst of significant demographic movements involving the Turks, Bulgarians and the Adyghe people (Circassians).This book provides a detailed exploration of the way in which administrative and judicial offices and practices provided an essential space for politics in 19th-century Bulgaria, securing local inhabitants’ participation with Ottoman imperial governance. Combining a wealth of primary documents in both Bulgarian and Ottoman Turkish, this is the first systematic and comprehensive study of the connection between imperially-designed institutions and local politics.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Maps, Figures and Tables -- Abbreviations -- Preface -- Maps -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Contextualising the Nineteenth Century -- 3. Sitting Together: Local Councils and the Politics of Election in the County of Vidin -- 4. Once Inside the Chamber . . . Participation in the Politics of Local Administration -- 5. Writing Politics: Ottoman Governmentality and the Language of Reports -- 6. ‘Cattle Thieves’: Refugee Settlement, Ottoman Governmentality and Biopolitics -- 7. Conclusion -- Select Bibliography -- Index

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A comprehensive history of the provincial administrative and judiciary structure in Ottoman-governed BulgariaDraws on provincial documents from Bulgarian archives to reveal a well-connected provincial political and economic environment in which the local elite played important roles alongside state officials.Provides a comprehensive discussion of the provincial bureaucratic and judiciary structure in Ottoman Balkans in the 19th century.Explains the investment of the local elite in the 19th century transformation of the Ottoman Empire.Provides an account of the main political structures in a key Bulgarian province at the eve of Bulgarian independence and in the midst of significant demographic movements involving the Turks, Bulgarians and the Adyghe people (Circassians).This book provides a detailed exploration of the way in which administrative and judicial offices and practices provided an essential space for politics in 19th-century Bulgaria, securing local inhabitants’ participation with Ottoman imperial governance. Combining a wealth of primary documents in both Bulgarian and Ottoman Turkish, this is the first systematic and comprehensive study of the connection between imperially-designed institutions and local politics.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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