Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xxx, 286 pages)
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illustrations, maps
ISBN:
9780520947757
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0520947754
Content:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-264) and index
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Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Note on Transliteration; Preface: The View from the Edge of the Center; Stephanos Vogorides' Apologia, November 1852; 1. The Houses of Phanar; 2. Volatile Synthesis; 3. Demolitions; 4. Phanariot Remodeling and the Struggle for Continuity; 5. Diplomacy and the Restoration of a New Order; 6. In the Eye of the Storm; Appendix A: Genealogies of the Vogorides, Musurus, and Aristarchi Families; Appendix B: Phanariot Dignitaries in the Four High Offices of Dragoman (Grand Dragoman; Dragoman of the Fleet) and Voyvoda (of Wallachia and Moldavia), 1661-1821.
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Philliou, Christine May Biography of an empire Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2011 ISBN 9780520266339
Language:
English
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