1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910785341603321

Autore

Philliou Christine May

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , [2010]

©2010

ISBN

1-283-27735-2

9786613277350

0-520-94775-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (318 pages)

Disciplina

956/.015

Soggetti

Phanariots - History - 19th century - Turkey

Turkey History Tanzimat, 1839-1876

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA990008977580403321

Titolo

L'Infini

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Paris, : Gallimard

ISSN

0754-023X

Disciplina

909

054.1

Lingua di pubblicazione

Francese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910647487503321

Autore

Hasselaar Jan Jorrit

Titolo

Climate Change, Radical Uncertainty and Hope : Theology and Economics in Conversation / / Jan Jorrit Hasselaar

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam : , : Amsterdam University Press, , [2023]

©2023

ISBN

1-04-078139-X

1-003-69267-2

1-04-079772-5

90-485-5848-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (176 p.)

Disciplina

261.88

Soggetti

Climatic changes - Economic aspects

Climatic changes - Religious aspects - Christianity

Ecotheology

Hope

BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Theory

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Stating the Problem: Radical Uncertainty -- 3. Theology and Economics in Conversation -- 4. Jonathan Sacks’ Understanding of Hope -- 5. Transversal Reasoning on Emunah -- 6. Transversal Reasoning on Chessed -- 7. Transversal Reasoning on Change of Identity -- 8. Transversal Reasoning on Narrative -- 9. Conclusions Bibliography -- Bibliography

Sommario/riassunto

Views on climate change are often either pessimistic or optimistic. In this book Jan Jorrit Hasselaar discovers and explores a third way, one of hope. A debate within economics on risk and uncertainty brings him to theological questions and the concept of hope in the work of the late Jonathan Sacks—and to a renewed way of doing theology as an account of the good life. What follows is an equal conversation between theology and economics as has hardly been undertaken in recent times.



It emerges that hope is not contrary to economic insights, but remarkably compatible with them. Communication between these fields of expertise can open the way for a courageous and creative embrace of radical uncertainty in climate change. A key notion here is that of a public Sabbath, or a ‘workplace of hope’—times and places set aside to cultivate inspiration and mutual trust among all parties involved, enabling them to take concrete steps forward.