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The second Ottoman Empire : political and social transformation in the early modern world

Tezcan, Baki

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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 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.

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Subject: Osman II, Sultan of the Turks, 1603-1622 Assassination. / Janizaries History. / Social change Turkey History 17th century. / Social change Turkey History 18th century. / Democratization Turkey History 17th century. / Turkey History 1453-1683. / Turkey History 1683-1829. / Turkey Politics and government. / Turkey Economic conditions.
• ISBN: 9780521519496, 0521519497

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