This innovative study of modern Turkey is the result of many years of ethnographic fieldwork and archival research. Michael Meeker combines anthropological and historical methods to examine the transition from the Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic in a major region of the country, the eastern Black Sea Coast.

pt. I.Aghas and Hodjas: The Republican District of Of -- 1. Amnesia: Clan-Society and Nation-State -- 2. Prohibition: Social Relations and Official Islam -- pt. II. Dissemination of an Imperial Modernity: The Ottoman Province of Trabzon -- 3. Horizons: Markets and States -- 4. Empire: Gaze, Discipline, Rule -- 5. Dissemination: Soldiers and Students -- pt. III. Old State Society and the New State System: The Ottoman Province of Trabzon -- 6. State Society: State Officials and Local Elites -- 7. Blindness: A Feudal Past Without a Modern Future -- 8. Scandal: Aghas and Hodjas -- pt. IV. Old Modernity and New Modernity: The Republican Town of Of -- 9. Revolution: Amnesia and Prohibition -- 10. Democracy: The Old Republic Inhabits the New Republic -- 11. Civil Society: Coffeehouses and Cooperatives -- 12. City: Nations and Empires.

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