What Kind of End for the Ottoman Empire?
Journal: Rechtsgeschichte - Legal History
Year: 2018

In 19th-century Europe, the juridical texture of space changed entirely. The state came to dominate the new normative and ontological landscape, inducing homogeneity. This phenomenon was more massive, critical, and contradictory in Central and Eastern Europe, as the states there were pursuing a territorialization plan to balance the Mediterranean area. Europe’s strategy moved in step with the Westernization / modernization process of the Ottoman Empire and its attempt to survive the crisis and k