03620nam 22006015 450 991045948120332120210114095141.01-283-27735-297866132773500-520-94775-410.1525/9780520947757(CKB)2670000000059095(EBL)622187(OCoLC)697174387(SSID)ssj0000467276(PQKBManifestationID)11293098(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000467276(PQKBWorkID)10490097(PQKB)10265351(DE-B1597)520500(OCoLC)1016604345(DE-B1597)9780520947757(MiAaPQ)EBC622187(EXLCZ)99267000000005909520200424h20102010 fg engur||#||||||||txtccrBiography of an Empire Governing Ottomans in an Age of Revolution /Christine M. PhilliouBerkeley, CA :University of California Press,[2010]©20101 online resource (318 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-520-26633-1 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 --IndexThis 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.Turkey --History --Tanzimat, 1839-1876Vogorides, Stephanos, --1780-1859PhanariotsHistory19th centuryTurkeyElectronic books.Turkey --History --Tanzimat, 1839-1876.Vogorides, Stephanos, --1780-1859.PhanariotsHistory956/.015Philliou Christine M.authttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut792099DE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK9910459481203321Biography of an empire1771133UNINA