Reforming Ottoman Governance : : Success, Failure and the Path to Decline / / Suphan Andic, Fuat Andic.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2015
• VerfasserIn: Andic, Fuat,; Andic, Suphan,
• Place / Publishing House: Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Munaqashat: Gorgias Studies in the Modern Middle East
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (185 p.)

The book is the history of reform attempts in the Ottoman Empire and the internal and external difficulties in implementing them. Imperialist aggression towards the Empire and bloody janissary revolts hampered the reforms, and although some successes in governance were achieved, there were many failures, and these contributed to the demise of the Empire at the end of the First World War.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chronology (Selim I-Mehmet VI) -- Note on Transcriptions -- Preface -- Introduction -- Governance and Reform Paradigm -- Counsels Unheeded -- 1699-1718: Defeat and Decline -- The Tulip Era -- 1730-1789: Missed Opportunities -- Selim III -- 1807-1808: Janissaries Revolt -- Mahmud II -- The Reform Edict -- The Crimean War and the Concert of Europe -- 1861-1876: La Belle Époque -- Tanzimat and the Legacy of Âli Pasha -- Abdülhamid II -- 1908-1918: The Demise of the Empire -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Glossary -- About the Authors