TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tezcan,Baki
ED  - Cambridge University Press.
TI  - The second Ottoman Empire: political and social transformation in the early modern world 
T2  - Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization
SN  - 9781107411449
PY  - 2012///
CY  - New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Osman
KW  - Janizaries
KW  - History
KW  - Social change
KW  - Turkey
KW  - 17th century
KW  - 18th century
KW  - Democratization
KW  - 1453-1683
KW  - 1683-1829
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Economic conditions
N1  - First published 2010; Includes bibliographical references and index; -- Introduction: Ottoman political history in the early modern period; -- One market, one money, one law : the making of an imperial market society and a law that applies to all; -- The question of succession : bringing the dynasty under legal supervision; -- The court strikes back : the making of Ottoman absolutism; -- A new empire for a second Osman : Osman II in power (1618-1622); -- The absolutist dispensation overturned : a regicide; -- The second empire goes public : the age of the Janissaries; -- Conclusion: Early modernity and the Ottoman decline
N2  - "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
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