Formation of the Modern State - The Ottoman Empire Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries

Informationen zum Autor Rifa'at 'Ali Abou-El-Haj is professor of modern Near East and European history at the State University of New York at Binghamton. He is the author of The Rebellion of 1703 and the Structure of Ottoman Politics and coeditor, with I. Bierman and D. Preziosi, of Ottoman Power and Urban Structure. Klappentext Rifa'at 'Ali Abou-El-Haj reevaluates the established historical view of the Ottoman Empire as an eastern despotic nation-state in decline and instead analyzes it as a modern state comparable to contemporary states in Europe and Asia. Zusammenfassung Challenges the paradigm of the societal decline as inadequate for understanding the Ottoman society and state during this period. This book evaluates the established historical view of the Ottoman Empire as an Eastern despotic nation-state in decline! and instead analyzes it as a modern state comparable to contemporary states in Europe and Asia.

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• Authors: &apos, Rifa&apos Abou-El-Haj, Rifa'at Abou-El-Haj, Rifa'at Ali Abou-El-Haj, Rifa''at Ali Abou-El-Haj, Rifa''at ''Ali Abou-El-Haj, Ali, at &apos
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.11.2005
• EAN: 9780815630852
• ISBN: 978-0-8156-3085-2
• No. of pages: 184
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 222 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Middle East Studies Beyond Dom; Middle East Studies Beyond Dom
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous