Second Ottoman Empire - Political and Social Transformation in the Early Modern World

Klappentext This book is a post-revisionist history of the late Ottoman Empire that makes a major contribution to Ottoman scholarship. Zusammenfassung This book proposes a radical approach to history of the late Ottoman Empire. Baki Tezcan constructs a new framework by foregrounding the proto-democratization of the Ottoman polity in this era! and shows how the empire embarked on a period of seismic change in the political! economic! military! and social spheres. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Product details

• Authors: Baki Tezcan, Baki (University of California Tezcan
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.10.2012
• EAN: 9781107411449
• ISBN: 978-1-107-41144-9
• No. of pages: 306
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Islamic C
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous