Frontiers of state in the late Ottoman Empire: Transjordan, 1850-1921

Abstract

Introduction 1. The Transjordan frontier in 1850 2. Ottomans: establishing a permanent presence in Transjordan 3. Settlement: colonization, the application of the 1858 land law, and their fiscal consequences 4. Merchants 5. Missionaries 6. Accommodation: rapid social change in Ottoman Transjordan 7. Resistance: popular rebellion and the 1910 Karak Revolt 8. The First World War Epilogue.