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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783497203321

Titolo

The Ottomans and the Balkans : a discussion of historiography / / editors, Fikret Adanir, Suraiya Faroqhi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston : , : Brill, , 2002

ISBN

1-280-46445-3

9786610464456

1-4175-3665-9

90-474-0060-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (vi, 445 pages)

Collana

Ottoman Empire and its heritage, , 1380-6076 ; ; v. 25

Altri autori (Persone)

AdanırFikret

FaroqhiSuraiya <1941->

Disciplina

949.6/02/072

Soggetti

Balkan Peninsula Relations Turkey Historiography

Turkey Relations Balkan Peninsula Historiography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 385-427) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter One. Bad Times and Better Self: Definitions of Identity and Strategies for Development in Late Ottoman Historiography, 1850-1900; Chapter Two. Research Problems concerning the Transition to Tourkokratia: the Byzantinist Standpoint; Chapter Three. The Ottoman Empire in the Historiography of the Kemalist Era: a Theory of Fatal Decline; Chapter Four. Non-Muslim Minorities in the Historiography of Republican Turkey: the Greek Case; Chapter Five. Ottoman Rule Experienced and Remembered: Remarks on Some Local Greek Chronicles of the Tourkokratia

Chapter Six. Islamization in the Balkans as a Historiographical Problem: the Southeast-European Perspective; Chapter Seven. The Formation of a 'Muslim' Nation in Bosnia-Hercegovina: a Historiographic Discussion; Chapter Eight. Hungarian Studies in Ottoman History; Chapter Nine. Coping with the Central State, Coping with Local Power: Ottoman Regions and Notables from the Sixteenth to the Early Nineteenth Century; List of contributors; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

A discussion of historiography concerning the Ottoman Empire. It analyzes how the historiographies established in various national states



have viewed the Empire and its legacy, and explores the links of 20th-century historiography with the rich historical tradition of the Ottoman Empire itself.