
Foundations of Modernity
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The book introduces an entirely new analytical approach to the study of modern state power and the social consequences to the interaction between long-ignored "historical agents" like pirates, smugglers, refugees, and the rural poor. In this respect, the roots of the most fundamental institutions and bureaucratic practices associated with the modern state prove to be the by-products of certain kinds of productive exchange long categorized in negative terms in post-colonial and mainstream scholarship. Such a challenge to conventional methods of historical and social scientific analysis is reinforced by the novel use of the work of Louis Althusser, Talal Asad, William Connolly and Frederick Cooper, whose challenges to scholarly conventions will prove helpful in changing how we understand the origins of our modern world and thus talk about Modernity. This book offers a methodological and historiographic intervention meant to challenge conventional studies of the modern era.
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"Blumi clearly knows the ins and outs of local conflicts...and produces a prodigious amount of archival research to document them. The juxtaposition of developments in places as seemingly disparate as Albania and Yemen, Macedonia and Kuwait, makes us question many of the categories we are comfortable with and helps us see modernityin a new light."-Adeeb Khalid, Carleton College, USA
"This is a welcome addition to scholarship on Ottoman administration and political economy in the 19th century. His theoretical discussion and review of the literature present a...clear and comparative framework influenced by a variety of anthropologists, philosophers, and historians. This is a dense study that can be used to encourage discussion in graduate courses." -M. Safa Sarac?O?Glu, Department of History, Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, USA
"Isa Blumi's new book is a remarkable attempt to deconstruct currently-held - if not universally accepted - ideas about the birth of modernity, relating the emergence of the modern world to the developments of nineteenth-century imperialism. ..the reader is led to a refreshingly new understanding of the history of empire and a reconsideration of the compelling, liberal narrative of nationalism....Blumi's book is an extremely welcome addition to reading lists on empire, states and nations, and on historical approaches to modernity, even as the interpretation forces us to continue seeking answers to questions which defy most forms of cohesive responses." -Isabel DiVanna, University of Cambridge, UK
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