Ottoman Tragedy
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17th century world history
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abdication
alternative narratives
an ottoman tragedy
assassination
Author_Gabriel Piterberg
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constantinople
crisis
cultural studies
early modern ottoman state
eastern and western worlds
empire
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historiography
imperial army
interpretive framework
mad uncle
middle eastern history
military system
ottoman empire
sociology
state narrative
studies on the history of society and culture series
trauma
turkey
turkish history
turmoil
young ruler
Product details
- ISBN 9780520238367
- Weight: 499g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 04 Sep 2003
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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In the space of six years early in the seventeenth century, the Ottoman Empire underwent such turmoil and trauma - the assassination of the young ruler Osman II, the re-enthronement and subsequent abdication of his mad uncle Mustafa I, for a start - that a scholar pronounced the period's three-day-long dramatic climax 'an Ottoman Tragedy'. Under Gabriel Piterberg's deft analysis, this period of crisis becomes a historical laboratory for the history of the Ottoman Empire in the seventeenth century - an opportunity to observe the dialectical play between history as an occurrence and experience and history as a recounting of that experience. Piterberg reconstructs the Ottoman narration of this fraught period from the foundational text, produced in the early 1620s, to the composition of the state narrative at the end of the seventeenth century. His work brings theories of historiography into dialogue with the actual interpretation of Ottoman historical texts, and forces a rethinking of both Ottoman historiography and the Ottoman state in the seventeenth century.
A provocative reinterpretation of a major event in Ottoman history, this work reconceives the relation between historiography and history.
Gabriel Piterberg is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles.
