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Late Ottoman Society: The Intellectual Legacy (SOAS/Routledge Studies on the Middle East)
Elisabeth Ozdalga
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Description for Late Ottoman Society: The Intellectual Legacy (SOAS/Routledge Studies on the Middle East)
hardcover. Modernisation brought about market principles to the economy and more complex administrative controls as part of state power. This book compares the different intellectual atmospheres between the pre-republican and the republican periods, and identifies the roots of republican authoritarianism in the intellectual heritage of the earlier period. Series: SOAS/Routledge Studies on the Middle East. Num Pages: 22 pages, 20 black & white illustrations, 7 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 246 x 164 x 27. Weight in Grams: 771.
When the Ottomans commenced their modernizing reforms in the 1830s, they still ruled over a vast empire. In addition to today's Turkey, including Anatolia and Thrace, their power reached over Mesopotamia, North Africa, the Levant, the Balkans, and the Caucasus. The Sultanate was at the apex of a truly multi-ethnic society. Modernization not only brought market principles to the economy and more complex administrative controls as part of state power, but also new educational institutions as well as new ideologies. Thus new ideologies developed and nationalism emerged, which became a political reality when the Empire reached its end. This book ... Read more
When the Ottomans commenced their modernizing reforms in the 1830s, they still ruled over a vast empire. In addition to today's Turkey, including Anatolia and Thrace, their power reached over Mesopotamia, North Africa, the Levant, the Balkans, and the Caucasus. The Sultanate was at the apex of a truly multi-ethnic society. Modernization not only brought market principles to the economy and more complex administrative controls as part of state power, but also new educational institutions as well as new ideologies. Thus new ideologies developed and nationalism emerged, which became a political reality when the Empire reached its end. This book ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Routledge United Kingdom
Number of pages
22
Condition
New
Series
SOAS/Routledge Studies on the Middle East
Number of Pages
346
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780415341646
SKU
V9780415341646
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About Elisabeth Ozdalga
Elisabeth Özdalga is Professor of Sociology at the Middle East Technical University in Ankara. Özdalga, who is also affiliated to Göteborg University in Sweden on a part-time basis, has also been the direct of The Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul. She is the editor of Sufism, Music and Society in Turkey and the Middle East (2001) and the author of ... Read more
Reviews for Late Ottoman Society: The Intellectual Legacy (SOAS/Routledge Studies on the Middle East)
'All of the articles in this volume are useful introductions to their respective areas of emphasis. This volume is highly recommended to students and scholars alike interested in the intellectual legacy of the late Ottoman Empire' - Kent Schull, Middle East Studies Association Bulletin, Volume 40 Number 2, December 2006 'Readers concerned with these subjects should not neglect this ... Read more