TY  - BOOK
AU  - Saracoglu,M.Safa
TI  - Nineteenth Century Local Governance in Ottoman Bulgaria: Politics in Provincial Councils 
T2  - Edinburgh studies on the Ottoman Empire
SN  - 9781474431019
AV  - DR64 .N564 2018
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Edinburgh
PB  - Edinburgh University Press
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Intro; Title page; Copyright; Contents; Maps, Figures and Tables; Abbreviations; Preface; 1 Introduction; 2 Contextualising the Nineteenth Century; 3 Sitting Together: Local Councils and the Politics of Election in the County of Vidin; 4 Once Inside the Chamber . . . Participation in the Politics of Local Administration; 5 Writing Politics: Ottoman Governmentality and the Language of Reports; 6 'Cattle Thieves': Refugee Settlement, Ottoman Governmentality and Biopolitics; 7 Conclusion; Select Bibliography; Index; 2; b
N2  - This book provides a detailed exploration of the way in which administrative and judicial offices and practices provided an essential space for politics in 19th-century Bulgaria, securing local inhabitants' participation with Ottoman imperial governance. Combining a wealth of primary documents in both Bulgarian and Ottoman Turkish, this is the first systematic and comprehensive study of the connection between imperially-designed institutions and local politics. --
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