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Although scholars have begun to revise the traditional view that the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries marked a decline in the fortunes of the Ottoman Empire, Baki Tezcan's 2010 book proposes a radical approach to this period. While he concurs that decline did take place in certain areas, he constructs a new framework by foregrounding the proto-democratization of the Ottoman polity in this era. Focusing on the background and the aftermath of the regicide of Osman II, he shows how the empire embarked on a period of seismic change in the political, economic, military, and social spheres. It is this period - from roughly 1580 to 1826 - that the author labels 'The Second Empire', and that he sees as no less than the transformation of the patrimonial, medieval, dynastic institution into a fledgling limited monarchy. The book is essentially a post-revisionist history of the early modern Ottoman Empire that will make a major contribution not only to Ottoman scholarship but also to comparable trends in world history.

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Book category Books in English Humanities History Regional & national history

• Full title: Second Ottoman Empire
• Subtitle: Political and Social Transformation in the Early Modern World
• Author: Baki Tezcan
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 306
• EAN: 9780521519496
• ISBN: 0521519497
• ID: 04092265
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 566 g
• Dimensions: 235 × 153 × 23 mm
• Date of publishing: 13. September 2010

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