Biography of an empire : governing Ottomans in an age of revolution / / Christine M. Philliou
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| Author: |
Philliou Christine May
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| Title: |
Biography of an empire : governing Ottomans in an age of revolution / / Christine M. Philliou
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| Publisher: | Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , [2010] |
| ©2010 | |
| Physical description: | 1 online resource (318 pages) |
| Dewey: | 956/.015 |
| Topical subject: | Phanariots - History - 19th century - Turkey |
| Geographic Subject: | Turkey History Tanzimat, 1839-1876 |
| Uncontrolled subject: | 19th century european history |
| 19th century global history | |
| 19th century northern african history | |
| 19th century western asian history | |
| christian elite | |
| christianity | |
| colonialism | |
| great ottoman empire | |
| groundbreaking | |
| history | |
| imperial crisis | |
| imperial modernization | |
| imperialism | |
| istanbul | |
| late ottoman empire | |
| middle east | |
| military | |
| modernization | |
| nationalism | |
| ottoman empire | |
| phanariots | |
| reform | |
| religion | |
| revisionist history | |
| revolution | |
| stephanos vogorides | |
| tanzimat | |
| the balkans | |
| westernizing reforms | |
| Formatted content note: | 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 |
| Summary, etc: | 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. |
| Preferred title for the work: | Biography of an empire |
| ISBN: | 1-283-27735-2 |
| 9786613277350 | |
| 0-520-94775-4 | |
| Format: | Language material  |
| Bibliographic level | Monograph |
| Language: | English |
| Record Nr.: | 9910785341603321 |
| You will find it: | Univ. Federico II |
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