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Middle East Studies Beyond Dominant Paradigms Ser.: Formation of the Modern State : The Ottoman Empire Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries by Rifa'at Abou-El-Haj (2005, Perfect)

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PublisherSyracuse University Press

ISBN-100815630859

ISBN-139780815630852

eBay Product ID (ePID)47036943

Product Key Features

Number of Pages184 Pages

Publication NameFormation of the Modern State : the Ottoman Empire Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries

LanguageEnglish

SubjectMiddle East / Turkey & Ottoman Empire

Publication Year2005

FeaturesNew Edition

TypeTextbook

AuthorRifa'at Abou-El-Haj

Subject AreaHistory

SeriesMiddle East Studies Beyond Dominant Paradigms Ser.

FormatPerfect

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight10.9 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

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Edition Number2

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2005-018279

ReviewsAbou-el-Haj's study will stimulate general readers to rethink the Ottoman experience, to reexamine its main lines of development, to ponder the lessons of the Ottoman legacy for both the Middle East and southeast Europe. Specialists will want to reexamine their own assumptions.... Perhaps the greatest contribution to this study is to challenge readers to think of the Ottoman experience as 'normal, as subject to the same pressures and tensions which have faced people in other times and places." - Digest of Middle East Studies, Abou-El-Haj's study will stimulate general readers to rethink the Ottoman experience, to reexamine its main lines of development, to ponder the lessons of the Ottoman legacy for both the Middle East and Southeast Europe. Specialists will want to reexamine their own assumptions. . . . Perhaps the greatest contribution of this study is to challenge readers to think of the Ottoman experience as 'normal,' as subject to the same pressures and tensions which have faced people in other times and places., Abou-el-Haj's study will stimulate general readers to rethink the Ottoman experience, to reexamine its main lines of development, to ponder the lessons of the Ottoman legacy for both the Middle East and southeast Europe. Specialists will want to reexamine their own assumptions.

Dewey Edition22

Dewey Decimal956.0152

Edition DescriptionNew Edition

SynopsisChallenges the paradigm of the societal decline as inadequate for understanding the Ottoman society and state during this period. This book evaluates the established historical view of the Ottoman Empire as an Eastern despotic nation-state in decline, and instead analyzes it as a modern state comparable to contemporary states in Europe and Asia., Rifa'at 'Ali Abou-El-Haj reevaluates the established historical view of the Ottoman Empire as an eastern despotic nation-state in decline and instead analyzes it as a modern state comparable to contemporary states in Europe and Asia., With extensive new material, this classic book reevaluates the established historical view of the Ottoman Empire as an eastern despotic nation-state in decline and instead analyzes it as a modern state comparable to contemporary states in Europe and Asia.

LC Classification NumberDR511.A26 2005