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Author : Baki Tezcan
Release : 2010-09-13
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 497/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Second Ottoman Empire by : Baki Tezcan
Download or read book The Second Ottoman Empire written by Baki Tezcan. This book was released on 2010-09-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a post-revisionist history of the late Ottoman Empire that makes a major contribution to Ottoman scholarship.
Author : Baki Tezcan
Release : 2012-10-25
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 449/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Second Ottoman Empire by : Baki Tezcan
Download or read book The Second Ottoman Empire written by Baki Tezcan. This book was released on 2012-10-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 new 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.
Author : Alan Palmer
Release : 2011-05-19
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 082/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Decline and Fall of the Ottoman Empire by : Alan Palmer
Download or read book The Decline and Fall of the Ottoman Empire written by Alan Palmer. This book was released on 2011-05-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like Charles II, the sick man of Europe was 'an unconscionable time dying.' Time and time again from the seventeenth century observers predicted the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, yet it outlived all its rivals. As late as 1910 it straddled three continents. Unlike the Romanovs, Hohenzollerns or Habsburgs, the House of Osman was still recognised as an imperial dynasty during the peacemaking which followed the First World War. This book offers a fascinating overview of the Ottoman Empire's decline from the failure to take Vienna in 1683 to the abolition of the Sultanate in 1922 by Mustafa Kemal, after a revolutionary upsurge of Turkish national pride. It deals with constantly recurring problems: competing secular and religious authority; acceptance or rejection of Western ideas; greedy neighbours; population movements; and the strength or weakness of successive Sultans. The book also emphasises the challenges of the early twentieth century, when railways and oilfields gave new importance to Ottoman lands in the Middle East. Recent events have put the problems that faced the later Sultans back upon the world agenda. Names like Basra and Mosul again make the headlines. So, too, do the old empire's outposts in Albania and Macedonia in the west and the mountainous Caucasus in the east. Alan Palmer's narrative reminds us of the long, sad continuity of conflict in the Lebanon. We read of the Kurdish struggle for survival, of Armenian aspirations for independence, of the lingering interests of the Ottomans in their Libyan provinces, and of the Muslim character of Sarajevo in the troubled country that was once Yugoslavia. The Ottoman past has great relevance to the changing patterns of eastern Europe and western Asia in the twentieth century.
Author : Donald Quataert
Release : 2005-08-11
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 91X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Ottoman Empire, 1700–1922 by : Donald Quataert
Download or read book The Ottoman Empire, 1700–1922 written by Donald Quataert. This book was released on 2005-08-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ottoman Empire was one of the most important non-Western states to survive from medieval to modern times, and played a vital role in European and global history. It continues to affect the peoples of the Middle East, the Balkans and central and western Europe to the present day. This new survey examines the major trends during the latter years of the empire; it pays attention to gender issues and to hotly-debated topics such as the treatment of minorities. In this second edition, Donald Quataert has updated his lively and authoritative text, revised the bibliographies, and included brief biographies of major figures on the Byzantines and the post Ottoman Middle East. This accessible narrative is supported by maps, illustrations and genealogical and chronological tables, which will be of help to students and non-specialists alike. It will appeal to anyone interested in the history of the Middle East.
Author : Guy Burak
Release : 2015-01-12
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 27X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Second Formation of Islamic Law by : Guy Burak
Download or read book The Second Formation of Islamic Law written by Guy Burak. This book was released on 2015-01-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Second Formation of Islamic Law offers a new periodization of Islamic legal history in the eastern Islamic lands.
