TY  - BOOK
AU  - Heather L.Ferguson
TI  - The Proper Order of Things: Language, Power, and Law in Ottoman Administrative Discourses
SN  - 9781503603561
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Stanford, California
PB  - Stanford University Press
KW  - Discourse analysis
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Turkey
KW  - History
KW  - Order
KW  - Administrative law
KW  - Imperialism
KW  - Ottoman Empire (1288-1918)
KW  - Politics and government
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
ER  -