| Physical description |
xviii, 284 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization. |
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Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization.
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| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Ottoman political history in the early modern period -- One market, one money, one law : the making of an imperial market society and a law that applies to all -- The question of succession : bringing the dynasty under legal supervision -- The court strikes back : the making of Ottoman absolutism -- A new empire for a second Osman : Osman II in power (1618-1622) -- The absolutist dispensation overturned : a regicide -- The second empire goes public : the age of the Janissaries -- Conclusion: Early modernity and the Ottoman decline. |
| Summary |
"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 book proposes a radical new 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 late Ottoman Empire that will make a major contribution not only to Ottoman scholarship but also to comparable trends in world history"--Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
Osman II, Sultan of the Turks, 1603-1622 -- Assassination.
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Janizaries -- History.
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Social change -- Turkey -- History -- 17th century.
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Social change -- Turkey -- History -- 18th century.
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Democratization -- Turkey -- History -- 17th century.
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Turkey -- History -- 1453-1683.
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Turkey -- History -- 1683-1829.
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Turkey -- Politics and government.
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Turkey -- Economic conditions.
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| ISBN |
9780521519496 (hardback) |
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0521519497 (hardback) |
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