Biography of an Empire: Governing Ottomans in an Age of Revolution
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Biography of an Empire: Governing Ottomans in an Age of Revolution
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2022
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Through the lens of the “microhistory” of a Phanariot, Stephanos Vogorides, who remained loyal to the sultan (although his brother was an ardent supporter of the Greek Revolution and a close friend of Korais), the book detects the “great”, exciting and in many ways unknown history of the Phanariot community – one of the most prominent and idiosyncratic elites in the Balkans – outlining the vast networks, across ethnic, religious and institutional borders, in which it moved.
It sheds new light on the crisis and change of the Ottoman Empire in the early 19th century, a critical period that marks the eve of the Tanzimat Western reforms and the beginnings of three distinct histories: nationalism in the Balkans, imperial modernisation in Istanbul and European colonialism in the Middle East. The result is a wide-ranging analysis of governance as a living experience in a historical moment in which a clear plan of power seems to have been lacking.
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It sheds new light on the crisis and change of the Ottoman Empire in the early 19th century, a critical period that marks the eve of the Tanzimat Western reforms and the beginnings of three distinct histories: nationalism in the Balkans, imperial modernisation in Istanbul and European colonialism in the Middle East. The result is a wide-ranging analysis of governance as a living experience in a historical moment in which a clear plan of power seems to have been lacking.
(Edited and translated blurb from publisher’s website)
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This book is a translation of the original version entitled "Biography of an Empire: Governing Ottomans in an Age of Revolution", by the same author; it was published in 2010 by the University of California Press.
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