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Biography of an empire
This vividly detailed revisionist history opens a new vista on the great Ottoman Empire in the early nineteenth century, a key period often seen as the eve of Tanzimat westernizing reforms and the beginning of three distinct histories—ethnic nationalism in the Balkans, imperial modernization from Istanbul, and European colonialism in the Middle East. Christine Philliou brilliantly shines a new light on imperial crisis and change in the 1820s and 1830s by unearthing the life of one man. Stephanos Vogorides (1780–1859) was part of a network of Christian elites known phanariots, institutionally excluded from power yet intimately bound up with Ottoman governance. By tracing the contours of the wide-ranging networks—crossing ethnic, religious, and institutional boundaries—in which the phanariots moved, Philliou provides a unique view of Ottoman power and, ultimately, of the Ottoman legacies in the Middle East and Balkans today. What emerges is a wide-angled analysis of governance as a lived experience at a moment in which there was no clear blueprint for power.
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The Paradox of Perceptions: Interpreting the Ottoman Past through the National Present
The Ottoman legacy in the Balkans and the Middle East is everywhere--from the hamams, mosques, and bedestan covered markets in Salonica and Damascus, to the cuisine, music, colloquialisms, and some say even the common culture of everyday bureaucracy from Egypt to Turkey to Albania. But beyond these whimsical and somewhat cliched examples, the Ottoman legacy is what is present but not perceived. Here, Philliou discusses the key to unlocking the paradox of perceptions regarding the Ottoman legacy in the Middle East and Balkans. She explores the imperial side of this paradox of perceptions through the case of Ottoman intermediaries, and in particular of Musurus Pasha and Stephanos Vogorides, in the nineteenth century; takes up the prolonged transition between the imperial and national worlds from the 1850s to the 1920s; and considers the ways the national side of the paradox has and has not obstructed their perceptions of the Ottoman past in post-Ottoman societies since the 1922 Treaty of Lausanne.
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