The Second Ottoman Empire: political and social transformation in the early modern world / Baki Tezcan.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010Description: xviii, 284 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmContent type: metin Media type: aracısız Carrier type: ciltISBN: 9780521519496Subject(s): Turkey -- History -- 1453-1683 | Türkiye -- Tarih -- 1453-1683 | Turkey -- History -- 1683-1829 | Türkiye -- Tarih -- 1683-1829 | Osman II, Sultan of the Turks, 1603-1622 -- Assassination | Sultan II. Osman, 1603-1622 -- Suikast | Janizaries -- History | Yeniçeriler -- Tarih | Social change -- Turkey -- History -- 17th century | Sosyal değişim -- Türkiye -- Tarih -- 17. yy | Social change -- Turkey -- History -- 18th century | Sosyal değişim -- Türkiye -- Tarih -- 18. yy | Democratization -- Turkey -- History -- 17th century | Demokratikleşme -- Türkiye --Tarih -- 17. yy | Turkey -- Politics and government | Türkiye --Politika ve devlet yönetimi | Turkey -- Economic conditions | Türkiye -- Ekonomik koşullarLOC classification: DR511Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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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 2010 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.
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