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04104aam a2200481 i 4500 001 D2433ECC101A11EA8DA14E4D97128E48 003 SILO 005 20191126010151 008 171020t20182018cauab b 001 0 eng c 010 $a 2017050465 020 $a 1503603563 020 $a 9781503603561 035 $a (OCoLC)999475136 040 $a CSt/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCQ $d YDX $d OBE $d FIE $d OCLCA $d OCLCF $d DLC $d YUS $d EAU $d UKMGB $d L2U $d NMW $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a a-tu--- 050 00 $a DR486 $b .F48 2018 100 1 $a Ferguson, Heather L., $e author. 245 14 $a The proper order of things : $b language, power, and law in Ottoman administrative discourses / $c Heather L. Ferguson. 264 1 $a Stanford, California : $b Stanford University Press, $c [2018] 300 $a xii, 426 pages : $b 1 illustration, 1 map ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages [289]-414) and index. 505 0 $a Introduction : the structure of empire and a grammar of rule -- Part I. Establishing genres. 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 -- Part II. Performing practices. The brokered state : "the past is no longer the present" in the "land between the rivers" -- A state of rebellion : the reterritorialization of Ottoman sovereignty in greater Syria -- Part III. Objectifying generic politics and practices. On the perfect state : an Ottoman vision of order -- Conclusion : the archiving state. 520 $a The "natural order of the state" was an early modern mania for the Ottoman Empire. In a time of profound and pervasive imperial transformation, the ideals of stability, proper order, and social harmony were integral to the legitimization of Ottoman power. And as Ottoman territory grew, so too did its network of written texts: a web of sultanic edicts, aimed at defining and supplementing imperial authority in the empire's disparate provinces. With this book, Heather L. Ferguson studies how this textual empire created a unique vision of Ottoman legal and social order, and how the Ottoman ruling elite, via sword and pen, articulated a claim to universal sovereignty that subverted internal challengers and external rivals. The Proper Order of Things offers the story of an empire, at once familiar and strange, told through the shifting written vocabularies of power deployed by the Ottomans in their quest to thrive within a competitive early modern environment. Ferguson transcends the question of what these documents said, revealing instead how their formulation of the "proper order of things" configured the state itself. Through this textual authority, she argues, Ottoman writers ensured the durability of their empire, creating the principles of organization on which Ottoman statecraft and authority came to rest. -- $c Provided by publisher. 651 0 $a Turkey $x History $y Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918. 650 0 $a Discourse analysis $x History. $z Turkey $x History. 650 0 $a Order $x History. $z Turkey $x History. 650 0 $a Administrative law $z Turkey $x History. 651 0 $a Turkey $x Politics and government. 650 0 $a Imperialism. 650 7 $a Administrative law. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00796846 650 7 $a Discourse analysis $x Political aspects. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00894937 650 7 $a Imperialism. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00968126 650 7 $a Politics and government. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919741 651 7 $a Turkey. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01208963 650 7 $a 15.75 history of Asia. $0 (NL-LeOCL)077599616 $2 nbc 651 7 $a Ottoman Empire. $0 (NL-LeOCL)078617812 $2 gtt 648 7 $a 1288-1918 $2 fast 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628. 776 08 $i Online version: $a Ferguson, Heather L. $t Proper order of things. $d Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2018 $z 9781503605534 $w (DLC) 2017053018 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20200318012540.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=D2433ECC101A11EA8DA14E4D97128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search