AN IRRIGATED EMPIRE: THE VIEW FROM OTTOMAN FAYYUM
AN IRRIGATED EMPIRE: THE VIEW FROM OTTOMAN FAYYUM
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一个灌溉帝国：奥斯曼法尤姆的观点
DOI：
10.1017/s0020743810000826
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发表时间：
2010
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1
通讯作者：
Alan Mikhail
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作者：
Alan Mikhail
摘要 本文利用奥斯曼土耳其和阿拉伯档案材料，讲述了 18 世纪上半叶法尤姆灌溉的历史。它的环境视角表明，对自然资源管理的共同依赖如何将法尤姆等奥斯曼帝国的极端农村地区与伊斯坦布尔和开罗的权力中心联系在一起。它试图做出两项史学干预。首先，它对灌溉的关注揭示了早期现代帝国的中心-边缘模型如何未能捕捉到奥斯曼帝国农村地区与帝国内外其他省份和城镇所维持的复杂关系。法尤姆的水种植了粮食，从而与地中海和红海地区的商品运输建立了联系。其次，通过对这种帝国内部和跨地区关系的考察，本文认为埃及农民在这些关系中掌握着很大的权力。
Abstract Using both Ottoman Turkish and Arabic archival materials, this article narrates the history of irrigation in Fayyum during the first half of the 18th century. Its environmental perspective shows how a shared reliance on natural resource management bound together extremely rural regions of the Ottoman Empire like Fayyum with centers of power in Istanbul and Cairo. It seeks to make two historiographical interventions. First, its focus on irrigation reveals how the center–periphery model of early modern empires fails to capture the complexity of relationships that rural regions of the Ottoman Empire maintained with other provinces and towns both in the empire and beyond. Water in Fayyum grew food that forged connections of commodity movement with areas of the Mediterranean and Red Seas. Second, through an examination of such intraimperial and transregional ties, this article argues that Egyptian peasants held much of the power in these relationships.