Ottoman Tragedy - History and Historiography At Play

Informationen zum Autor Gabriel Piterberg is Associate Professor of History at the University of California! Los Angeles. Klappentext Combines a reinterpretation of the history of the Ottoman Empire in the 17th century with an analysis of the ways history is constructed by its participants. Zusammenfassung In the space of six years early in the seventeenth century, the Ottoman Empire underwent such turmoil and trauma. This work offers a reinterpretation of a major event in Ottoman history. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments A Note on Transliteration Introduction: The Content and Form of This Study PART I: FOUNDATIONS 1. The Plot 2. The Formation and Study of Ottoman Historiography 3. An Interpretive Framework PART II: HISTORIOGRAPHY 4. Tubi's Representation of the Haile-i Osmaniye: The Perspective of the Imperial Army 5. The Formation of Alternative Narratives: Hasanbeyzade and Peçevi 6. The Conception of the State Narrative PART III: THE STATE 7. The Early Modern Ottoman State: History and Theory 8. The Ottoman State as a Discursively Contested Field Epilogue: Poetics of Ottoman Historiography: Preliminary Notes Glossary Notes Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Gabriel Piterberg, Piterberg Gabriel
• Assisted by: Gabriel Piterberg (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.09.2003
• EAN: 9780520238367
• ISBN: 978-0-520-23836-7
• No. of pages: 271
• Series: Studies on the History of Society and Culture; Studies on the History of Soci; Studies on the History of Society and Culture; Studies on the History of Soci
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; History, HISTORY / Middle East / General, Middle East, Middle Eastern history