Broschiertes Buch

Shared Histories of Modernity

China, India and the Ottoman Empire

Herausgeber: Islamoglu, Huri; Perdue, Peter C.

Beschreibung

While pre-modernity is often considered to be the 'time' of non-European regions and modernity is seen as belonging to the West, this book seeks to transcend the temporal bifurcation of that world history into 'pre-modern' and 'modern', as well as question its geographical split into two irreconcilable trajectories: the European and the non-European. The book examines shared experiences of modern transformation or modernity in three regions -- China, India and the Ottoman Empire -- which conventional historiography identifies as non-European, and therefore, by implication, outside of modernity or only tangentially linked to it as its victim. In other words, this work looks at modernity without reference to any 'idealised' criteria of what qualifies as 'modern' or not, studying the negotiation and legacies of the early modern period for the modern nation state. It focuses on the experience of modernity of non-European regions for they play a crucial role in the new phase of transformational patterns may have deeper roots than are generally assumed.Rejecting European characterisations of 'eastern' states as Oriental despotisms, the volume conceives of the early modern state as a negotiated enterprise, one that questions the assumption that state centralisation must be a key metric of success in modernisation. Among other topics, the book highlights: state formations in the three empires; legislation pertaining to taxation, property, police reform, the autonomy of legal sphere, the interaction of different types of law, law's role in governance, administrative practice, negotiated settlements and courts as sites of negotiation, the blurred boundaries between formal law and informal mediation; the ability of 18th century Qing and Ottoman imperial governments to accommodate diverse local particularities within an overreaching structure; and the pattern of regional development pointing to the accommodative institutional capacity of the Mughal empire.<

Autor

Huricihan Islamoglu is Professor of Economic History and Political Economy, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey, and Central European University, Budapest, Hungary. Her research interests are economic history, economic theory as well as international relations and European studies. She is the author of Constituting Modernity: Private Property in the East and West (2004); State and Peasant in the Ottoman Empire (1994); and Ottoman Empire and the World Economy (1987). Peter C. Perdue is Professor of History, Yale University. He was Professor of History, MIT from 1982 to 2008. His doctoral research at the Havard University was in History and East Asian Languages. He co-edited the recent volume: Imperial Formations (2007). Some of his monographs include: China Marches West: The Qing Conquest of Central Eurasia (2005); and Exhausting the Earth: State and Peasant in Hunan, 1500-1850 A.D. (1987).

Produktdetails

• Critical Asian Studies
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 348
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 442g
• ISBN-13: 9780367176341
• ISBN-10: 0367176343
• Artikelnr.: 57110201