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

Informationen zum Autor Baki Tezcan is Assistant Professor of History and Religious Studies at the University of California! Davis. He has also received research fellowships from the Mrs Giles Whiting Foundation! the National Endowment for the Humanities! and Cornell University's Society for the Humanities. He coedited Identity and Identity Formation in the Ottoman World: A Volume of Essays in Honor of Norman Itzkowitz and has contributed articles to numerous books and journals. Klappentext This book is a post-revisionist history of the late Ottoman Empire that will make a major contribution not only to Ottoman scholarship but also to comparable trends in world history. 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 Teczan, Baki Tezcan, Tezcan Baki
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.09.2010
• EAN: 9780521519496
• ISBN: 978-0-521-51949-6
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 236 mm x 21 mm
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Islamic C; Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization; Cambridge Studies in Islamic C
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Ottoman Empire, HISTORY / Middle East / Turkey & Ottoman Empire, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Middle Eastern history, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599