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The Second Ottoman Empire - Political and Social Transformation in the Early Modern World (Hardcover)
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The Second Ottoman Empire - Political and Social Transformation in the Early Modern World (Hardcover)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization
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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 early modern Ottoman
Empire that will make a major contribution not only to Ottoman
scholarship but also to comparable trends in world history.
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