Second Ottoman Empire

Political and Social Transformation in the Early Modern World

Inbunden, Engelska, 2010

Av Baki Tezcan, Davis) Tezcan, Baki (University of California

1 679 kr

Beställningsvara. Skickas inom 7-10 vardagar

Fri frakt för medlemmar vid köp för minst 249 kr.

Although scholars have begun to revise the traditional view that the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries marked a decline in the fortunes of the Ottoman Empire, Baki Tezcan's book proposes a radical approach to this period. While he concurs that decline did take place in certain areas, he constructs a new framework by foregrounding the proto-democratization of the Ottoman polity in this era. Focusing on the background and the aftermath of the regicide of Osman II, he shows how the empire embarked on a period of seismic change in the political, economic, military, and social spheres. It is this period - from roughly 1580 to 1826 - that the author labels 'The Second Empire', and that he sees as no less than the transformation of the patrimonial, medieval, dynastic institution into a fledgling limited monarchy. The book is essentially a post-revisionist history of the early modern Ottoman Empire that will make a major contribution not only to Ottoman scholarship but also to comparable trends in world history.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2010-09-13
Mått152 x 229 x 19 mm
Vikt580 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieCambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization
Antal sidor306
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9780521519496

Tillhör följande kategorier

Mellanösterns historia inom Historia och arkeologi

Baki Tezcan is Assistant Professor of History and Religious Studies at the University of California, Davis. He has also received research fellowships from the Mrs Giles Whiting Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and Cornell University's Society for the Humanities. He coedited Identity and Identity Formation in the Ottoman World: A Volume of Essays in Honor of Norman Itzkowitz and has contributed articles to numerous books and journals.

Introduction: Ottoman political history in the Early Modern period; 1. One market, one money, one law: the making of an imperial market society and a law that applies to all; 2. The question of succession: bringing the dynasty under legal supervision; 3. The court strikes back: the making of Ottoman absolutism; 4. A new empire for a second Osman: Osman II in power (1618–22); 5. The absolutist dispensation overturned: a regicide; 6. The second empire goes public: the age of the Janissaries; Conclusion: early modernity and the Ottoman decline.

'This book is one of the most important to be published in Ottoman history for at least a decade, and engagement with its arguments will surely shape the field for many years to come. As with any book that offers such a bold, rich, and thorough reinterpretation, some readers will quibble over particular facets of its argument, and others will mistakenly dismiss the new framework out of hand. All of them, however, will have to contend with the force of its intervention and the elegance of the empirical craftsmanship that built it.' Alan Mikhail, Journal of Interdisciplinary History