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11%OFFAysel Yildiz - Crisis and Rebellion in the Ottoman Empire: The Downfall of a Sultan in the Age of Revolution - 9781784535100 - V9781784535100
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Crisis and Rebellion in the Ottoman Empire: The Downfall of a Sultan in the Age of Revolution

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Description for Crisis and Rebellion in the Ottoman Empire: The Downfall of a Sultan in the Age of Revolution Hardcover. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDT; HBJF; HBTQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 138. .
In 1807 the reformist Sultan Selim III was overthrown in a palace coup enacted by the elite special forces of the day-the Janissaries. The Ottomans were bankrupt and had been forced to make peace with Napoleon after Austerlitz, but it was Selim III's efforts to reform an empire that had suffered successive military defeats, and to reform along the lines of modern principles-with an end to the privileged 'feudal' position of many in elite Ottoman civil-military society-which sealed his fate. This book seeks to situate Turkey's reactionary revolutions of 1807 into a wider European context, that of the French Revolution ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Series
Library of Ottoman Studies
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784535100
SKU
V9781784535100
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About Aysel Yildiz
Aysel Y ld z is a Post-Doctoral Researcher at Sabanci University, Istanbul.

Reviews for Crisis and Rebellion in the Ottoman Empire: The Downfall of a Sultan in the Age of Revolution
'The author is able to engage major questions of the field and speculate on historiographical issues, while at the same providing an engaging work... This work is the state of the field on this topic... Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.'
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