Formation of the Modern State: The Ottoman Empire Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries - Brossura

Abou-El-Haj, Rifa'at

 
9780815630852: Formation of the Modern State: The Ottoman Empire Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries

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Rifa'at 'Ali Abou-El-Haj reevaluates the established historical view of the Ottoman Empire as an eastern despotic nation-state in decline and instead analyzes it as a modern state comparable to contemporary states in Europe and Asia.

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With extensive new material, this classic book - now in a second edition - challenges the current paradigm of the societal decline as inadequate for understanding the Ottoman society and state during this period. Rifa'at 'Ali Abou-El-Haj reevaluates the established historical view of the Ottoman Empire as an Eastern despotic nation-state in decline and instead analyzes it as a modern state comparable to contemporary states in Europe and Asia.

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9780791408933: Formation of the Modern State: The Ottoman Empire Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries

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ISBN 10:  0791408930 ISBN 13:  9780791408933
Casa editrice: State Univ of New York Pr, 1992
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