A Brief History of the Late Ottoman Empire / / M. ?ükrü Hanio?lu.

• VerfasserIn: Hanio?lu, M. ?ükrü,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2010]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource :; 17 halftones. 2 line illus. 8 maps.

At the turn of the nineteenth century, the Ottoman Empire straddled three continents and encompassed extraordinary ethnic and cultural diversity among the estimated thirty million people living within its borders. It was perhaps the most cosmopolitan state in the world--and possibly the most volatil...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• List of Figures
• Acknowledgments
• Note on Transliteration, Place Names, and Dates
• Introduction
• 1. The Ottoman Empire at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century
• 2. Initial Ottoman Responses to the Challenge of Modernity
• 3. The Dawn of the Age of Reform
• 4. The Tanzimat Era
• 5. The Twilight of the Tanzimat and the Hamidian Regime
• 6. From Revolution to Imperial Collapse: The Longest Decade of the Late Ottoman Empire
• Conclusion
• Further Reading in Major European Languages
• Bibliography
• Index