Negotiating Empire in the Middle East - Ottomans and Arab Nomads in the Modern Era, 1840-1914

Examining the relationship between the Ottoman Empire and the Arab nomads in the Modern era, this book explores how the Ottomans integrated the Bedouin nomads into the imperial system of governance, and in turn, demonstrating how Bedouin socio-political agency played a part in the making of the modern Middle East.