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great ottoman empire
groundbreaking
history
imperial crisis
imperial modernization
imperialism
istanbul
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late ottoman empire
middle east
military
modernization
nationalism
ottoman empire
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phanariots
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reform
religion
revisionist history
revolution
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stephanos vogorides
tanzimat
the balkans
westernizing reforms
Product details
- ISBN 9780520266353
- Weight: 363g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 07 Dec 2010
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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This vividly detailed revisionist history opens a new vista on the great Ottoman Empire in the early nineteenth century, a key period often seen as the eve of Tanzimat westernizing reforms and the beginning of three distinct histories - ethnic nationalism in the Balkans, imperial modernization from Istanbul, and European colonialism in the Middle East. Christine Philliou brilliantly shines a new light on imperial crisis and change in the 1820s and 1830s by unearthing the life of one man. Stephanos Vogorides (1780-1859) was part of a network of Christian elites known phanariots, institutionally excluded from power yet intimately bound up with Ottoman governance. By tracing the contours of the wide-ranging networks - crossing ethnic, religious, and institutional boundaries - in which the phanariots moved, Philliou provides a unique view of Ottoman power and, ultimately, of the Ottoman legacies in the Middle East and Balkans today. What emerges is a wide-angled analysis of governance as a lived experience at a moment in which there was no clear blueprint for power.
Christine M. Philliou is Assistant Professor of History at Columbia University.
