Formation of the Modern State: The Ottoman Empire, Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries, Second Edition

ISBN-13: 9780815630852 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 206 str.

Rifa'at Ali Abou-El-Haj

Opis

With extensive new material, this classic book - now in a second edition - challenges the current paradigm of the societal decline as inadequate for understanding the Ottoman society and state during this period. Rifa'at 'Ali Abou-El-Haj reevaluates the established historical view of the Ottoman Empire as an Eastern despotic nation-state in decline and instead analyzes it as a modern state comparable to contemporary states in Europe and Asia.