{"product_id":"a-nation-of-empire-michael-meeker-9780520234826","title":"A Nation of Empire: The Ottoman Legacy of Turkish Modernity","description":"This innovative study of modern Turkey is the result of many years of ethnographic fieldwork and archival research. Michael Meeker expertly combines anthropological and historical methods to examine the transition from the Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic in a major region of the country, the eastern Black Sea coast. His most significant finding is that a state-oriented provincial oligarchy played a key role in successive programs of reform over the course of more than two hundred years of imperial and national history. As Meeker demonstrates, leading individuals backed by interpersonal networks determined the outcome of the modernizing process, first during the westernizing period of the Empire, then during the revolutionary period of the Republic.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo understand how such a state-oriented provincial oligarchy was produced and reproduced along the eastern Black Sea coast, Meeker integrates a contemporary ethnographic study of public life in towns and villages with a historical study of official documents, consular reports, and travel narratives. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Nation of Empire \u003c\/i\u003eprovides anthropologists, historians, and students of Eastern Europe and the Middle East with a new understanding of the complexities and contradictions of modern Turkish experience.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael Meeker\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0520234820\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780520234826\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of California Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/29\/2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 438\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.31lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.02h x 6.12w x 1.07d","brand":"Michael Meeker","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48064996933887,"sku":"9780520234826","price":47.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c73bbcb1-ac64-4f65-abe8-4acd260d4cfc.jpg?v=1768672448","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-nation-of-empire-michael-meeker-9780520234826","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}