Richard Saumarez Smith
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 194069 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Richard Saumarez Smith |
| PRENOMES | Richard Saumarez |
| SOBRENOME | Smith |
| ASSINATURA | SMITH R S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | American University of Beirut |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 5 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 75 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 5 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1985 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2007 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Governing property, making the modern state
Was "modernity" in the Middle East merely imported piecemeal from the West? Did Ottoman society really consist of islands of sophistication in a sea of tribal conservatism, as has so often been claimed? In this groundbreaking new book, Martha Mundy and Richard Saumarez Smith draw on over a decade of primary source research to argue that, contrary to popular belief, a distinctively Ottoman process of modernization was achieved by the end of the ni…
Between local tax and global statistic
The enumeration of caste and religion by the all-India Census was emblematic of a particular kind of imperial rule. Might a different procedure of compilation and record on an alternative epistemological basis have developed? Censuses had provided governments in India with statistical information at least from the 1820s, and been used for local taxa tion from much earlier. The possibility of a continually updated civil registry had been mooted fr…
Rule by Records
Rule by Records
When the British took the Panjab in the 1840s their first act was to establish landholding registers in every village, through a system of village records and district reports. Rule by Records examines the formation of this dual system in a particular locality and reconstructs the nature of agrarian relations for the period immediately before British rule, demonstrating the way in which registration transformed what it was intended to preserve. T…
Rule-by-Records and Rule-by-Reports
Rule-by-Records and Rule-by-Reports
Rule by Records
When the British took the Panjab in the 1840s their first act was to establish landholding registers in every village, through a system of village records and district reports. Rule by Records examines the formation of this dual system in a particular locality and reconstructs the nature of agrarian relations for the period immediately before British rule, demonstrating the way in which registration transformed what it was intended to preserve. T…
Between local tax and global statistic
The enumeration of caste and religion by the all-India Census was emblematic of a particular kind of imperial rule. Might a different procedure of compilation and record on an alternative epistemological basis have developed? Censuses had provided governments in India with statistical information at least from the 1820s, and been used for local taxa tion from much earlier. The possibility of a continually updated civil registry had been mooted fr…
Rule-by-Records and Rule-by-Reports
Rule by Records
When the British took the Panjab in the 1840s their first act was to establish landholding registers in every village, through a system of village records and district reports. Rule by Records examines the formation of this dual system in a particular locality and reconstructs the nature of agrarian relations for the period immediately before British rule, demonstrating the way in which registration transformed what it was intended to preserve. T…
Rule by Records
Between local tax and global statistic
The enumeration of caste and religion by the all-India Census was emblematic of a particular kind of imperial rule. Might a different procedure of compilation and record on an alternative epistemological basis have developed? Censuses had provided governments in India with statistical information at least from the 1820s, and been used for local taxa tion from much earlier. The possibility of a continually updated civil registry had been mooted fr…
Governing property, making the modern state
Was "modernity" in the Middle East merely imported piecemeal from the West? Did Ottoman society really consist of islands of sophistication in a sea of tribal conservatism, as has so often been claimed? In this groundbreaking new book, Martha Mundy and Richard Saumarez Smith draw on over a decade of primary source research to argue that, contrary to popular belief, a distinctively Ottoman process of modernization was achieved by the end of the ni…
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