Frontiers of the State in the Late Ottoman Empire: Transjordan, 1850-1921

by Eugene Rogan

Book Overview

Until the mid-nineteenth century, Transjordan was a frontier region of the Ottoman province of Syria. In a time of European challenges to Ottoman integrity, the region's strategic location, linking Syria to Palestine and Arabia, motivated the Ottoman state to extend direct rule over this region. Using new archival material from Ottoman, Arabic and European sources, Eugene Rogan documents the case of Transjordan to provide a theoretically informed...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521892236
• ISBN13: 9780521892230
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"