The Second Ottoman Empire

Zusammenfassung This book proposes a radical approach to history of the late Ottoman Empire. Baki Tezcan constructs a new framework by foregrounding the proto-democratization of the Ottoman polity in this era, and shows how the empire embarked on a period of seismic change in the political, economic, military, and social spheres.

Klappentext
This book is a post-revisionist history of the late Ottoman Empire that makes a major contribution to Ottoman scholarship.

Inhalt
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.

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