Title: The second Ottoman Empire
Description: "Although scholars have begun to revise the traditional view that the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries marked a decline in the fortunes of the Ottoman Empire, Baki Tezcan's book proposes a radical new approach to this period. While he concurs that decline did take place in certain areas, he constructs a new framework by foregrounding the proto-democratization of the Ottoman polity in this era. Focusing on the background and the aftermath of the regicide of Osman II, he shows how the empire embarked on a period of seismic change in the political, economic, military, and social spheres. It is this period--from roughly 1580 to 1826--that the author labels "the second empire," and that he sees as no less than the transformation of the patrimonial, medieval, dynastic institution into a fledgling limited monarchy. The book is essentially a post-revisionist history of the late Ottoman Empire that will make a major contribution not only to Ottoman scholarship but also to comparable trends in world history"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Politics and government, Janizaries, Economic conditions, Democratization, Assassination, Social change, History, Democracy, Turkey, history, Turkey, politics and government, Turkey, economic conditions, Kings and rulers
Places: Turkey
People: Osman II Sultan of the Turks (1603-1622)
Time periods: 1683-1829, 1453-1683, 17th century, 18th century