The second Ottoman Empire : political and social transformation in the early modern world / Baki Tezcan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tezcan, Baki.

Series:

Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Osman II, Sultan of the Turks, 1603-1622.

Democratization.

History.

Social change.

Janizaries.

Assassination.

Turkey--History--1453-1683.

Turkey.

Turkey--History--1683-1829.

Osman II, Sultan of the Turks, 1603-1622--Assassination.

Osman.

Janizaries--History.

Social change--Turkey--History--17th century.

Social change--Turkey--History--18th century.

Democratization--Turkey--History--17th century.

Turkey--Politics and government.

Politics and government.

Turkey--Economic conditions.

Economic conditions.

Physical Description:

xviii, 284 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.

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.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780521519496

0521519497

OCLC:

458582838