Biography of an empire : governing Ottomans in an age of revolution / Christine M. Philliou.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Philliou, Christine May.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Phanariots--Turkey--History--19th century.

Phanariots.

Turkey--History--Tanzimat, 1839-1876.

Turkey.

Vogorides, Stephanos, 1780-1859.

Vogorides, Stephanos.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (318 pages)

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 1820's and 1830's 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.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Illustrations

Note on Transliteration

Preface: The View from the Edge of the Center

Stephanos Vogorides' Apologia, November 1852

1. The Houses of Phanar

2. Volatile Synthesis

3. Demolitions

4. Phanariot Remodeling and the Struggle for Continuity

5. Diplomacy and the Restoration of a New Order

6. In the Eye of the Storm

Appendix A: Genealogies of the Vogorides, Musurus, and Aristarchi Families

Appendix B: Phanariot Dignitaries in the Four High Offices of Dragoman (Grand Dragoman; Dragoman of the Fleet) and Voyvoda (of Wallachia and Moldavia), 1661-1821

Notes

Bibliography

Acknowledgments

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-264) and index.

ISBN:

9786613277350

9781283277358

1283277352

9780520947757

0520947754

OCLC:

697174387