Bedouin bureaucrats : mobility and property in the Ottoman Empire / Nora Elizabeth Barakat.
| Author/creator | Barakat, Nora Elizabeth author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2023] |
| Description | xii, 361 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Beyond the tribal frontier -- Commercial capital in the Syrian interior -- Producing tribes and property -- Bureaucracy in crisis -- Taxation, property and citizenship. |
| Abstract | "In the late nineteenth century, the Ottoman government sought to fill landscapes they legally defined as "empty." Both land and people were incorporated into territorially bounded grids of administrative law. Bedouin Bureaucrats examines how tent-dwelling, seasonally migrating Bedouin engaged in these processes of Ottoman state transformation on local, imperial, and global scales. As the "tribe" became a category of Ottoman administration, Bedouin in the Syrian interior used this category both to gain political influence and to organize community resistance to maintain control over land. Narrating the lives of Bedouin individuals involved in Ottoman administration, Nora Elizabeth Barakat brings this population to the center of modern state-making, from their involvement in the pilgrimage administration in the eighteenth century and their performance of land registration and taxation as the Ottoman bureaucracy expanded in the nineteenth, to their eventual rejection of Ottoman attempts to reallocate the "empty land" they inhabited in the twentieth. She places the Syrian interior in a global context of imperial expansion into regions formerly deemed marginal, especially in relation to American and Russian empires. Ultimately, the book illuminates Ottoman state formation attempts within Bedouin communities and the unique trajectory of Bedouin in Syria, who maintained their control over land"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-344) and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Barakat, Nora Elizabeth. Bedouin bureaucrats. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2023 9781503635630 |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2022035161 |
| ISBN | 9781503635623 |
| ISBN | 9781503634619 hardcover |
| ISBN | 1503634612 hardcover |
| ISBN | 1503635627 paperback |
| ISBN | electronic book |