1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910459481203321

Autore

Philliou Christine M.

Titolo

Biography of an Empire : Governing Ottomans in an Age of Revolution / / Christine M. Philliou

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

©2010

ISBN

1-283-27735-2

9786613277350

0-520-94775-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (318 p.)

Disciplina

956/.015

Soggetti

Turkey --History --Tanzimat, 1839-1876

Vogorides, Stephanos, --1780-1859

Phanariots - History - 19th century - Turkey

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

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.

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Record Nr.

UNISA996216815603316

Titolo

Les cahiers d'outre-mer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bordeaux, : Institut de la France d'Outre-mer, 1948-[2022]

ISSN

1961-8603

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Soggetti

Geography

Géographie

Regionale geografie

geography

rural development

agriculture

food

géographie

développement rural

aliment

geografía

desarrollo rural

agricultura

alimento

Periodicals.

France Colonies Periodicals

Southern Hemisphere Geography Periodicals

Southern Hemisphere Periodicals

France Colonies Périodiques

developed countries

developing countries



pays développés

pays en développement

países desarrollados

países en desarrollo

Lingua di pubblicazione

Francese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

Note generali

Refereed/Peer-reviewed