Ottoman Crisis in Western Anatolia
Subtitle: Turkey's Belle Epoque and the Transition to a Modern Nation State
Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company, Limited
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9781784534707
Subjects: Turkey, history, ottoman empire, 1288-1918; Turkey, economic conditions
Description: "Ottoman Turkey's coastal provinces in the early nineteenth century were economic powerhouses, teeming with innovation, wealth and energy a legacy of the Ottoman s outward-looking and trade-orientated diplomacy. By the middle of the century, the wide-ranging and radical process of modernisation known collectively as the Tanzimat was underway, in part a symptom of a slow decline in Ottoman financial strength. By the 1920s, the coastal cities were ghost towns. The Ottoman Crisis in Western Anatolia seeks to unpick how and why this happened. A detailed, rich and authoritative regional study, this book offers a unique and original insight into the effects of forced migration, displacement, economic re-organisation and the competing political ideologies focused on modernisation all of which are central to the study of the late Ottoman Empire."--Bloomsbury Publishing.