Ottomans Into Europeans

Author : Wim P. van Meurs,Alina Mungiu-Pippidi
Publisher : Hurst & Company Limited
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1849040567

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Ottomans Into Europeans by Wim P. van Meurs,Alina Mungiu-Pippidi Pdf

Wim Van Meurs and Alina Mungiu-Pippidi have completed the first book on the history of institutions in the Balkans, commissioning a host of experts to write on the bureaucracies, judiciaries, democratic elections, free media, and local and central governments that rule the region. The essays in this volume examine the selection, evolution, and performance of such entities within a post-Ottoman Balkan state and account for their regional variations. At the same time, they address the commonalities and differences between individual countries in Southeastern and Western Europe, deciphering their institutional arrangements and choices. Contributors pursue two key issues: Did the post-Ottoman wave of Europeanization and Western-style institution building fail in the Balkans, and does this explain the region's continuing political fragility? And will the underlying factors that contributed to this failure resurface in future attempts to reintegrate the region?

Author : John Mill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:24503813918

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The Ottomans in Europe by John Mill Pdf

Author : Peter F. Sugar
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295803630

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Southeastern Europe under Ottoman Rule, 1354-1804 by Peter F. Sugar Pdf

Southeastern Europe under Ottoman Rule, 1354-1804 provides an over-all picture of the least studied and most obscured part of Balkan history, the Ottoman period. The book begins with the early history of the Ottomans and with their establishment in Europe, describing the basic Muslim and Turkish features of the Ottoman state. The author goes on in subsequent sections to show how these features influenced every aspect of life in the European lands administered directly by the Ottomans (the "core" provinces) and left a permanent mark on states that were vassals of or paid tribute to the empire. Whether dealing with the "core" provinces of Rumelia or with the vassal and tribute-paying states (Moldavia, Wallachia, Transylvania, and Dubrovik), the author offers fresh insights and new interpretations, as well as a wealth of information on Balkan political, economic, and social history not available elsewhere. The appendixes include lists of dynasties and rulers with whom the Ottomans dealt, as well as data for the House of Osman and some of the grand viziers; a chronology of major military campaigns, peace treaties, and territory gained and lost by the Ottoman Empire in Europe from 1354 to 1804; and glossaries of geographical names and foreign terms.

Author : Halil İnalcık
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Europe
ISBN : 6058301181

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The Ottoman Empire and Europe by Halil İnalcık Pdf

Author : Andrei Pippidi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Europe
ISBN : 0231703783

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Visions of the Ottoman World in Renaissance Europe by Andrei Pippidi Pdf

Andrei Pippidi follows ideas of the Ottoman Empire in Eastern Europe from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries and ties the roots of these images to patterns in Western intellectualism. A pathbreaking book, his volume reconsiders the writing of Erasmus, Luther, and Machiavelli -- individuals we consider intellectuals, yet who largely did not travel or have direct contact with the Ottoman Empire. Nor were these figures well-disposed to the Ottomans' predecessor, the Byzantine Empire, whose fall presented them with an intellectual conundrum: what could explain the impressive advance of the Ottomans across the Balkans and the inability of Christian Europe to hold the line against them? Christians also felt compelled to incorporate this significant new threat into their vision of the world, to rationalize and unravel its origins. These issues and events spawned a common market of ideas in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, as Europeans debated and represented the new Ottoman age. Pippidi's analysis frequently echoes trends in today's debates concerning the ongoing relationship between Turkey and greater Europe, and the struggle of Western societies to assimilate descendants of the empire.

Author : Donald Quataert
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2005-08-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0521839106

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The Ottoman Empire, 1700-1922 by Donald Quataert Pdf

Second edition of an authoritative text on the Ottoman Empire.

Author : Marc David Baer
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 567 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781541673779

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The Ottomans by Marc David Baer Pdf

This major new history of the Ottoman dynasty reveals a diverse empire that straddled East and West. The Ottoman Empire has long been depicted as the Islamic, Asian antithesis of the Christian, European West. But the reality was starkly different: the Ottomans’ multiethnic, multilingual, and multireligious domain reached deep into Europe’s heart. Indeed, the Ottoman rulers saw themselves as the new Romans. Recounting the Ottomans’ remarkable rise from a frontier principality to a world empire, historian Marc David Baer traces their debts to their Turkish, Mongolian, Islamic, and Byzantine heritage. The Ottomans pioneered religious toleration even as they used religious conversion to integrate conquered peoples. But in the nineteenth century, they embraced exclusivity, leading to ethnic cleansing, genocide, and the empire’s demise after the First World War. The Ottomans vividly reveals the dynasty’s full history and its enduring impact on Europe and the world.

Author : Virginia H. Aksan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 1617191302

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Ottomans and Europeans by Virginia H. Aksan Pdf

Author : Aslı Çırakman
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0820451894

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From the "terror of the World" to the "sick Man of Europe" by Aslı Çırakman Pdf

From the «Terror of the World» to the «Sick Man of Europe» sheds new light on the hotly debated issue of Orientalism by looking at the European images of the Ottoman Empire and society over three centuries. Through a careful examination of the European intellectual discourse, this book claims that there was no coherent and constant Europewide vision of the Turks until the eighteenth century and clearly demonstrates that the Age of Reason has not rendered reasonable images of the Turks. Indeed, once inspiring awe, the European opinion of Ottomans was held in contempt during this period.

Author : Mostafa Minawi
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780804799294

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The Ottoman Scramble for Africa by Mostafa Minawi Pdf

The Ottoman Scramble for Africa is the first book to tell the story of the Ottoman Empire's expansionist efforts during the age of high imperialism. Following key representatives of the sultan on their travels across Europe, Africa, and Arabia at the close of the nineteenth century, it takes the reader from Istanbul to Berlin, from Benghazi to Lake Chad Basin to the Hijaz, and then back to Istanbul. It turns the spotlight on the Ottoman Empire's expansionist strategies in Africa and its increasingly vulnerable African and Arabian frontiers. Drawing on previously untapped Ottoman archival evidence, Mostafa Minawi examines how the Ottoman participation in the Conference of Berlin and involvement in an aggressive competition for colonial possessions in Africa were part of a self-reimagining of this once powerful global empire. In so doing, Minawi redefines the parameters of agency in late-nineteenth-century colonialism to include the Ottoman Empire and turns the typical framework of a European colonizer and a non-European colonized on its head. Most importantly, Minawi offers a radical revision of nineteenth-century Middle East history by providing a counternarrative to the "Sick Man of Europe" trope, challenging the idea that the Ottomans were passive observers of the great European powers' negotiations over solutions to the so-called Eastern Question.

Author : John Mill
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783385504813

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The Ottomans in Europe. Or, Turkey in the Present Crisis, with the Secret Societies' Maps by John Mill Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.

Author : Kate Fleet
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1999-07-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521642217

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European and Islamic Trade in the Early Ottoman State by Kate Fleet Pdf

A readable and authoritative account of the economic development of the early Ottoman state.

Author : Tom Gallagher
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317684534

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Outcast Europe: The Balkans, 1789-1989 by Tom Gallagher Pdf

Examining two centuries of Balkan politics, from the emergence of nationalism to the retreat of Communist power in 1989, this is the first book to systematically argue that many of the region's problems are external in origin. A decade of instability in the Balkan states of southeast Europe has given the region one of the worst images in world politics. The Balkans has become synonymous with chaos and extremism. Balkanization, meaning conflict arising from the fragmentation of political power, is a condition feared across the globe. This new text assesses the key issues of Balkan politics, showing how the development of exclusive nationalism has prevented the region’s human and material resources from being harnessed in a constructive way. It argues that the proximity of the Balkans to the great powers is the main reason for instability and decline. Britain, Russia, Austria-Hungary, France and finally the USA had conflicting ambitions and interests in the region. Russia had imperial designs before and after the 1917 Revolution. The Western powers sometimes tolerated these or encouraged undemocratic local forces to exercise control in order to block further Soviet expansion. Leading authority Tom Gallagher examines the origins of these Western prejudices towards the Balkans, tracing the damaging effects of policies based on Western lethargy and cynicism, and reassesses the negative image of the region, its citizens, their leadership skills and their potential to overcome crucial problems.

Author : Noel Malcolm
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198830139

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Useful Enemies by Noel Malcolm Pdf

From the fall of Constantinople in 1453 until the eighteenth century, many Western European writers viewed the Ottoman Empire with almost obsessive interest. Typically they reacted to it with fear and distrust; and such feelings were reinforced by the deep hostility of Western Christendom towards Islam. Yet there was also much curiosity about the social and political system on which the huge power of the sultans was based. In the sixteenth century, especially, when Ottoman territorial expansion was rapid and Ottoman institutions seemed particularly robust, there was even open admiration. In this path-breaking book Noel Malcolm ranges through these vital centuries of East-West interaction, studying all the ways in which thinkers in the West interpreted the Ottoman Empire as a political phenomenon - and Islam as a political religion. Useful Enemies shows how the concept of 'oriental despotism' began as an attempt to turn the tables on a very positive analysis of Ottoman state power, and how, as it developed, it interacted with Western debates about monarchy and government. Noel Malcolm also shows how a negative portrayal of Islam as a religion devised for political purposes was assimilated by radical writers, who extended the criticism to all religions, including Christianity itself. Examining the works of many famous thinkers (including Machiavelli, Bodin, and Montesquieu) and many less well-known ones, Useful Enemies illuminates the long-term development of Western ideas about the Ottomans, and about Islam. Noel Malcolm shows how these ideas became intertwined with internal Western debates about power, religion, society, and war. Discussions of Islam and the Ottoman Empire were thus bound up with mainstream thinking in the West on a wide range of important topics. These Eastern enemies were not just there to be denounced. They were there to be made use of, in arguments which contributed significantly to the development of Western political thought.

Author : Alan Mikhail
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780571331925

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God's Shadow by Alan Mikhail Pdf

The Ottoman Empire was a hub of flourishing intellectual fervor, geopolitical power, and enlightened pluralistic rule. At the helm of its ascent was the omnipotent Sultan Selim I (1470-1520), who, with the aid of his extraordinarily gifted mother, Gülbahar, hugely expanded the empire, propelling it onto the world stage. Aware of centuries of European suppression of Islamic history, Alan Mikhail centers Selim's Ottoman Empire and Islam as the very pivots of global history, redefining such world-changing events as Christopher Columbus's voyages - which originated, in fact, as a Catholic jihad that would come to view Native Americans as somehow "Moorish" - the Protestant Reformation, the transatlantic slave trade, and the dramatic Ottoman seizure of the Middle East and North Africa. Drawing on previously unexamined sources and written in gripping detail, Mikhail's groundbreaking account vividly recaptures Selim's life and world. An historical masterwork, God's Shadow radically reshapes our understanding of a world we thought we knew.A leading historian of his generation, Alan Mikhail, Professor of History and Chair of the Department of History at Yale University, has reforged our understandings of the past through his previous three prize-winning books on the history of Middle East.