- Description
- 1 online resource (xii, 426 pages) : illustration, maps.
- Uniform Title
- Proper order of things (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Proper order of things (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-414) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- Introduction : the structure of empire and a grammar of rule -- The sovereign state : spatial and textual politics in early modern Eurasian courts -- The state of stability : the kanunname as a genre of administrative governance -- The bureaucratic state : reforming documentary practices -- The brokered state : "the past is no longer the present" in the "land between the rivers" -- A state of rebellion : the re-territorialization of Ottoman sovereignty in greater Syria -- On the perfect state : an Ottoman vision of order -- Conclusion : the archiving state.
- LCCN
- 2017050465
- OCLC
- ssj0001994676
- Author
Ferguson, Heather L.
- Title
The proper order of things [electronic resource] : language, power, and law in Ottoman administrative discourses / Heather L. Ferguson.
- Imprint
Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2018]
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-414) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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