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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Product Identifiers
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
Additional Product Features
Edition Number2
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2005-018279
Dewey Edition22
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 Decimal956.0152
Edition DescriptionNew Edition
SynopsisRifa'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., Challenges 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., 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.