TY - BOOK AU - Saracoglu,M.Safa TI - Nineteenth-century local governance in Ottoman Bulgaria: politics in provincial councils T2 - Edinburgh studies on the Ottoman Empire SN - 9781474431002 AV - JN9605 .S37 2018 U1 - 320.9/499/09034 23 PY - 2018///] CY - Edinburgh PB - Edinburgh University Press KW - Local government KW - Bulgaria KW - History KW - 19th century KW - fast KW - Politics and government KW - Turkey KW - Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918 N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-192) and index N2 - This book provides a detailed exploration of the way in which administrative and judicial offices and practices provided an essential space for politics in 19th-century Bulgaria, securing local inhabitants' participation with Ottoman imperial governance. Combining a wealth of primary documents in both Bulgarian and Ottoman Turkish, this is the first systematic and comprehensive study of the connection between imperially-designed institutions and local politics -- ER -