Mosul before Iraq

Like Bees Making Five-Sided Cells

AvSarah D. Shields

Häftad, Engelska, 2000

Del i serien SUNY series in the Social and Economic History of the Middle East

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Beskrivning

Using original source documents, this book portrays nineteenth-century Mosul—a large city currently in Iraq's "no-fly" zone.Drawing upon original source documents, Mosul before Iraq paints a portrait of the region during the turbulent nineteenth century. What emerges is a picture of citizens less focused on Europe or Istanbul and more on centuries-old relationships among its economic and social spheres. By arguing that the region belongs to a broader geographic, economic, and political space which crosses current national borders, the book explains the continuing conflict over the status of Mosul.Like bees building unconventional cells, Mosul's people innovated during the nineteenth century. They worked to incorporate new methods, new products, and new interactions into networks that they had already constructed in their crafts, their commerce, their city, and their region.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2000-06-22
Mått:142 x 221 x 9 mm
Vikt:386 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:SUNY series in the Social and Economic History of the Middle East
Antal sidor:292
Förlag:State University of New York Press
ISBN:9780791444887

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Mellanösterns historia inom Historia och arkeologi

Mer om författaren

Sarah D. Shields is Associate Professor in the History Department at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Recensioner i media

"This book expands our knowledge of Mosul in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by presenting new information culled from diplomatic archives, travel accounts, and documents of the Ottoman central government. Shields offers a revisionist view of the impact of nineteenth-century economic integration by looking at this process from the vantage of a province rather than from the viewpoint of international trade." — Hasan Kayali, coauthor of Arabs and Young Turks: Ottomanism, Arabism, and Islamism in the Ottoman Empire, 1908–1918

Innehållsförteckning

Maps, Illustrations, Tables, and FiguresNote on SpellingAcknowledgments Introduction Sources and Voices: The ScholarsFocusActorsVoices and Sources: The CharactersOutline 1. Mosul and Its Of The Ottomans and MosulMosul's GovernmentInstitutions of GovernmentTanzimat: CentralizationStruggles for PowerTanzimat: TaxationTanzimat: Non-Muslim CommunitiesChristians versus ChristiansChallenge in the MountainsRiots in the CityThe Revolution of 1908Conclusion 2. People of the City HomesFood and WaterWorking LifeTextilesMaking Ends MeetForeign Trade, Local Government, and ConReform and ReactionConclusion 3. Merchants 1838: The Commercial ConventionCircles of Trade: Rafts and DonkeysCircles of Trade: MulesCircles of Trade: Camels Circles of Trade: SteamshipsJusticeCreditTolls, Taxes, and MonopoliesThe Challenge of CountingForeign Trade, Regional TradeConclusion 4. Peasants and the City Planting and HarvestingTaxesCreditLand Ownership Enforcement and Effects of the Land Reform LawsLabor and Increasing ExportsFood, Scarcity, and PowerConclusion 5. Nomads InterdependenceNomads, Sheep, and WoolGovernment and the Politics of the NomadsConclusion Conclusions and Suggestions Politics and Foreign Trade HistoriographyEpilogue: The Mosul Question Permeable Boundaries, Impenetrable BordersCreating a State: The Political Implications of Regional Trade AppendixNotesBibliographyIndex