Melis Hafez (Virginia Commonwealth University)

Broschiertes Buch

Inventing Laziness

Beschreibung

A lively and original study tracing the development of 'laziness' as a social problem in the Ottoman Empire over the long nineteenth-century. Hafez explores the anxiety about productivity that generated reforms as well as new understandings of morality, subjectivity, citizenship, and nationhood among the Ottomans.

Autor

Melis Hafez is Associate Professor in the Department of History at Virginia Commonwealth University. She holds a PhD from the Department of History, UCLA. Her scholarship spans late Ottoman Empire and the modern Middle East, with a focus on social and cultural transformations.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Juli 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 464g
• ISBN-13: 9781108448215
• ISBN-10: 1108448216
• Artikelnr.: 70203151