Screen LibraryThe tunisia of ahmad bey, 1837-1855 /
Under the energetic but confused prodding of the activist ruler Ahmad Bey, Tunisia made its first effort to institute European-inspired political and military reforms. L. Carl Brown's book on the reign of Ahmad Bey is thus a case study in modernization as well as a historical survey of Tunisia...
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Princeton University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Princeton, N.J. : |
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[2015] ©2015 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Princeton studies on the near east
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Under the energetic but confused prodding of the activist ruler Ahmad Bey, Tunisia made its first effort to institute European-inspired political and military reforms. L. Carl Brown's book on the reign of Ahmad Bey is thus a case study in modernization as well as a historical survey of Tunisia in the mid-nineteenth century. Professor Brown explains the workings of the traditional political system, an elaborate blend of Hafsid and Ottoman governmental ideas and practices. He explores the ways in which the changes imposed on Tunisia by the West made this system unworkable. Turning to the modernization movement itself, the author argues that the first phase of modernization was almost exclusively in the hands of the existing political elite, whose background, education, career pattern, and self-image he examines. This elite, working within a political climate characterized by a close interweaving of domestic and diplomatic concerns, developed an operating style described as collaborationist modernization. In addition to recapturing in a narrative history the age of Ahmad Bey and the political class over which he ruled, Professor Brown fits the Tunisian story of these years into the broader historical context of change imposed by the West on the rest of the world.Originally published in 1975.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource(427pages) : illustrations. |
| ISBN: | 9781400847846 |
| Index Number: | DT264 |
| CLC: | K414 |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Note on Translation and the Use of Arabic and Turkish Technical Terms -- Abbreviations Used -- Table of Principal Dates -- Introduction -- I. Tunisia: Mediterranean, Muslim and Ottoman -- II. The Political Class -- III. The Web of Government -- IV. The Religious Establishment -- V . . . And the Ruled -- Introduction to Part Two -- VI. Ahmad Bey -- VII. Tunisia and an Encroaching Outside World -- VIII. Military Reforms -- IX. Marks of Modernity -- X. The Fatal Flaw -- Conclusion: The Meaning of it all -- APPENDIX I. Husaynid Marriage Patterns -- APPENDIX II. Provincial Qaids -- APPENDIX III. A Note on Population -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index. |