Law and Society in Ottoman Iraq: The Case of the Buried Treasure (1856)

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dc.contributor.advisorAndrews, Walter Gen_US
dc.contributor.authorBarrett, Elizabeth Pageen_US
dc.date.accessioned2015-09-29T17:55:55Z
dc.date.issued2015-09-29
dc.date.submitted2015en_US
dc.descriptionThesis (Master's)--University of Washington, 2015en_US
dc.description.abstractAs in all legal disputes, there are many versions of this story. One party claims the other broke a contract by failing to pay off a debt. The other argues the contract was never legally binding and he was coerced into signing it in the first place. This may sound like a fairly pedestrian civil case. However, Svoboda v. Pachachi (1856) was beyond unusual—it was a scandal that titillated ‘Victorian Baghdad’; it embodied the clash between European colonial ambitions and Ottoman sovereignty; it is a story about a fortune in buried treasure. Most importantly, it offers historians insight into provincial legal practices in the midst of the upheaval of the Tanzimat reforms.en_US
dc.embargo.lift2016-09-28T17:55:55Z
dc.embargo.termsRestrict to UW for 1 year -- then make Open Accessen_US
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen_US
dc.identifier.otherBarrett_washington_0250O_14844.pdfen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1773/33530
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.rightsCopyright is held by the individual authors.en_US
dc.subjectCapitulations; Consular courts; Forum shopping; Iraq; Legal pluralism; Ottoman Empireen_US
dc.subject.otherMiddle Eastern studiesen_US
dc.subject.otherHistoryen_US
dc.subject.otherLawen_US
dc.subject.otherInternational Studies - Middle Easten_US
dc.titleLaw and Society in Ottoman Iraq: The Case of the Buried Treasure (1856)en_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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