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Record Nr.

UNINA9910793410303321

Autore

Andic Fuat M.

Titolo

Reforming Ottoman governance : success, failure and the path to decline / / by Fuat Andic, Suphan Andic

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Piscataway, New Jersey : , : Gorgias Press, , [2014]

2014

ISBN

1-4632-3577-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

Munaqashat, Gorgias studies in the Modern Middle East ; ; 4

Disciplina

956.015

Soggetti

Islam and politics - Turkey

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chronology (Selim I-Mehmet VI) -- Note on Transcriptions -- Preface -- Introduction -- Governance and Reform Paradigm -- Counsels Unheeded -- 1699-1718: Defeat and Decline -- The Tulip Era -- 1730-1789: Missed Opportunities -- Selim III -- 1807-1808: Janissaries Revolt -- Mahmud II -- The Reform Edict -- The Crimean War and the Concert of Europe -- 1861-1876: La Belle Époque -- Tanzimat and the Legacy of Âli Pasha -- Abdülhamid II -- 1908-1918: The Demise of the Empire -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Glossary -- About the Authors

Sommario/riassunto

The book is the history of reform attempts in the Ottoman Empire and the internal and external difficulties in implementing them. Imperialist aggression towards the Empire and bloody janissary revolts hampered the reforms, and although some successes in governance were achieved, there were many failures, and these contributed to the demise of the Empire at the end of the First World War.