The Ottoman Empire, 1700-1922 (New Approaches to European History)

The Ottoman Empire was one of the most important non-Western states to survive from medieval to modern times, and played a vital role in European and global history. It continues to affect the peoples of the Middle East, the Balkans and central and western Europe to the present day. This new survey examines the major trends during the latter years of the empire; it pays attention to gender issues and to hotly-debated topics such as the treatment of minorities. In this second edition, Donald Quataert has updated his lively and authoritative text, revised the bibliographies, and included brief biographies of major figures on the Byzantines and the post Ottoman Middle East. This accessible narrative is supported by maps, illustrations and genealogical and chronological tables, which will be of help to students and non-specialists alike. It will appeal to anyone interested in the history of the Middle East. EEn......Page 1 The Ottoman Empire, 1700-1922, Second Edition......Page 2 Copyright Info......Page 6 Dedication......Page 7 TOC......Page 9 Plates......Page 10 Maps......Page 11 Preface......Page 13 Guide to pronunciation of Turkish words and a note on place names......Page 16 Genealogy of the Ottoman dynasty......Page 18 Chronology of Ottoman history, 1260-1923......Page 19 Introduction......Page 25 Ottoman history in world history......Page 27 The Ottoman Empire in European culture......Page 30 Suggested bibliography......Page 35 Origins of the Ottoman state......Page 37 Expansion and consolidation of the Ottoman state, 1300–1683......Page 44 How to explain this remarkable record of Ottoman success?......Page 49 Evolution of the state until the late seventeenth century......Page 56 Suggested bibliography......Page 59 The wars of contraction, c. 1683–1798......Page 61 State economic policies......Page 65 Intra-elite political life at the imperial center......Page 66 Elite–popular struggles in Istanbul......Page 68 Political life in the provinces......Page 70 Religious solutions to political and military weakness......Page 74 Suggested bibliography......Page 75 The wars of contraction and internal rebellions......Page 78 Overview: evolution of the Ottoman state, 1808–1922......Page 85 Ongoing transformation of Ottoman state–subject and subject–subject relationships......Page 89 Nationalism and the nineteenth-century Ottoman Middle East......Page 92 Foreign capital and the nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire......Page 95 Suggested bibliography......Page 96 The Ottoman Empire in the international order, 1700–1922......Page 99 From occasional to continuous methods of diplomacy......Page 101 The caliphate as a special tool of Ottoman diplomacy......Page 107 Ottoman relations with states in Europe, Iran, central Asia, India, and North Africa: relations with Europe......Page 109 Relations with Iran and central Asia......Page 110 Relations with rulers in India......Page 111 Relations with North African states......Page 112 Suggested bibliography......Page 113 The Ottoman dynasty: principles of succession......Page 114 Means of dynastic legitimation......Page 117 Aspects of Ottoman administration......Page 123 Center–province relations......Page 126 Center–province relations: Damascus, 1708–17586......Page 127 Center–province relations: Nablus, 1798–18409......Page 130 Suggested bibliography......Page 134 Population......Page 135 Transportation......Page 143 Commerce......Page 150 Agriculture......Page 154 Manufacturing......Page 158 Suggested bibliography......Page 164 An overview of social relations among groups......Page 166 Changing social mobility and clothing laws......Page 167 Ottoman private spaces......Page 175 Structure of the home......Page 176 New public spaces......Page 181 The coffee house and the bathhouse......Page 184 Other forms and sites of sociability......Page 185 Su. brotherhoods and their lodges......Page 186 Tombs of the saints......Page 187 Holidays......Page 188 Reading and literacy......Page 192 Suggested bibliography......Page 196 Inter-communal relations: an overview......Page 198 Residential patterns and inter-communal relations......Page 203 Other evidence of inter-communal sharing......Page 205 Inter-communal relations in the workplace......Page 206 The Armenian massacres of 1915–19166......Page 210 Nationalism and the end of the Ottoman Empire......Page 212 Suggested bibliography......Page 216 10 Legacies of the Ottoman Empire......Page 219 Suggested bibliography......Page 225 Index......Page 227 "The Ottoman Empire was one of the most important non-Western states to survive from medieval to modern times, and played a vital role in European and global history. It continues to affect the peoples of the Middle East, the Balkans and central and western Europe to the present day. This new survey examines the major trends during the latter years of the empire; it pays attention to gender issues and to hotly debated topics such as the treatment of minorities. In this second edition, Donald Quataert has updated his lively and authoritative text, revised the bibliographies, and included brief bibliographies of major works on the Byzantine Empire and the post-Ottoman Middle East. This accessible narrative is supported by maps, illustrations and genealogical and chronological tables, which will be of help to students and non-specialists alike. It will appeal to anyone interested in the history of the Middle East"--Jacket The Ottoman Empire was one of the most important non-Western states to survive from medieval to modern times, and played a vital role in European and global history. It continues to affect the peoples of the Middle East, the Balkans and central and western Europe to the present day. This new survey examines the major trends during the latter years of the empire, paying attention to gender issues and to hotly-debated topics such as the treatment of minorities. In this second edition, Donald Quataert has updated his authoritative text, revised the bibliographies, and included brief biographies of major figures of the Byzantines and the post-Ottoman Middle East. First Edition Hb (2000) 0-521-633281 First Edition Pb (2000) 0-521-63360-5 This major new survey of the Ottoman Empire, 1700-1922, strikes a balance among social, economic, and political history. The book examines the major trends during the latter years of the empire; it pays attention to gender issues and to hotly-debated topics such as the treatment of minorities. Donald Quataert, a distinguished Ottoman scholar, has written a lively, authoritative and accessible introduction, supported by maps, illustrations and a chronology, which will be of enormous value to students and nonspecialists alike. This major new survey treats the most important trends during the latter years of the Ottoman Empire. In this second edition, Donald Quataert has updated his lively and authoritative text and revised the bibliographies. This accessible narrative will appeal to anyone interested in the history of the Middle East. This book owes its origins to an event that occurred in Vienna in the summer of 1983, when lines of schoolchildren wound their way through the sidewalks of the Austrian capital.