TY - GEN TY - GEN T1 - Governing the frontiers in the Ottoman Empire : notables, tribes and peasants of Mu s (1820s-1880s) T2 - The Ottoman Empire and its heritage A1 - Duman Ko c, G ulseren, kirjoittaja LA - eng PP - Leiden ; Boston PB - Brill YR - 2024 UL - https://kansalliskirjasto.finna.fi/Record/fikka.5694029 AB - "Based on many previously unused sources from Ottoman and British archives, Governing the Frontiers in the Ottoman Empire offers a micro-history to understand the nineteenth century Ottoman reforms on the eastern frontiers. By examining the administrative, military and fiscal transformation of Mu s, a multi-ethnic, multi-religious sub-province in the Ottoman East, it shows how the reforms were not top-down and were shaped according to local particularities. The book also provides a story of the notables, tribes and peasants of a frontier region. Focusing on the relations between state-notables, notables-tribes, notables-peasants and finally tribes-peasants, the book shows both the causes of contention and collaborations between the parties"-- SN - 978-90-04-68303-7 kovakantinen SN - ebook ER -