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Article: "The Ottoman State".(The Ottomans in Syria: A History of Justice and Oppression)(Frontiers of the State in the Late Ottoman Empire)(Book review)
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- The Historian
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- December 22, 2006
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The Ottomans in Syria: A History of Justice and Oppression. By Dick Douwes. (New York, N.Y.: I. B. Tauris, 2000. Pp. viii, 244. $55.00.)
Frontiers of the State in the Late Ottoman Empire. By Eugene L. Rogan. (Cambridge, Mass.: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. xv, 274. $64.95.)
Taken together, these two books present a challenge to the traditional narrative of state modernization in the Middle East. Dick Douwes studies coastal and western Syria in the period 1750-1850, a region of ancient urbanization delineated by the cities of Hama, Damascus, and Acre, while Eugene L. Rogan examines the more southerly area known in the 1920s as Transjordan, whose ...