Crisis And Rebellion In The Ottoman Empire: The Downfall Of A Sultan In The Age Of Revolution (library Of Ottoman Studies)
by Aysel Yıldız /
2017 / English / EPUB
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In 1807 the reformist Sultan Selim III was overthrown in a palace
coup enacted by the elite special forces of the day-the
Janissaries. The Ottomans were bankrupt and had been forced to make
peace with Napoleon after Austerlitz, but it was Selim III's
efforts to reform an empire that had suffered successive military
defeats, and to reform along the lines of modern principles-with an
end to the privileged 'feudal' position of many in elite Ottoman
civil-military society-which sealed his fate. This book seeks to
situate Turkey's reactionary revolutions of 1807 into a wider
European context, that of the French Revolution and the outbreaks
of revolutionary activity in the German states, Britain and the US.
The Ottoman Empire was an interconnected and crucial part of this
early-modern world, and therefore, Aysel Yildiz argues, must be
analyzed in relation to its European rivals. Focusing on the
uprising, and the socio-economic and political conditions which
caused it, this book re-orientates Ottoman history towards Western
Europe, and re-situates the late-Ottoman Empire as a key
battle-ground of political ideas in the modern era.
In 1807 the reformist Sultan Selim III was overthrown in a palace
coup enacted by the elite special forces of the day-the
Janissaries. The Ottomans were bankrupt and had been forced to make
peace with Napoleon after Austerlitz, but it was Selim III's
efforts to reform an empire that had suffered successive military
defeats, and to reform along the lines of modern principles-with an
end to the privileged 'feudal' position of many in elite Ottoman
civil-military society-which sealed his fate. This book seeks to
situate Turkey's reactionary revolutions of 1807 into a wider
European context, that of the French Revolution and the outbreaks
of revolutionary activity in the German states, Britain and the US.
The Ottoman Empire was an interconnected and crucial part of this
early-modern world, and therefore, Aysel Yildiz argues, must be
analyzed in relation to its European rivals. Focusing on the
uprising, and the socio-economic and political conditions which
caused it, this book re-orientates Ottoman history towards Western
Europe, and re-situates the late-Ottoman Empire as a key
battle-ground of political ideas in the modern era.
