The Second Ottoman Empire: Political and Social Transformation in the Early Modern World

ISBN-13: 9780521519496 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 306 str.

Baki Tezcan

Opis

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 early modern Ottoman Empire that will make a major contribution not only to Ottoman scholarship but also to comparable trends in world history."

Recenzje

'The work is based on the conviction that integrating economic, military, and social issues, often studied in isolation, would form a viable alternative political narrative of the Ottoman Empire. And, as [Tezcan] skilfully demonstrates, it does … Tezcan's … analytically solid argumentation utilizing a wide range of unpublished and published archival, manuscript, and literary sources open[s] up fresh research venues for Ottomanists and [is] a welcome contribution to the field.' Side Emre, Sixteenth Century Journal

Spis treści

Introduction: Ottoman political history in the Early Modern period; 1. One market, one money, one law: the making of an imperial market society and a law that applies to all; 2. The question of succession: bringing the dynasty under legal supervision; 3. The court strikes back: the making of Ottoman absolutism; 4. A new empire for a second Osman: Osman II in power (1618–22); 5. The absolutist dispensation overturned: a regicide; 6. The second empire goes public: the age of the Janissaries; Conclusion: early modernity and the Ottoman decline.