Formation of the Modern State: The Ottoman Empire Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries / Edition 2

by Rifa'at Abou-El-Haj

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780815630852
Publisher:	Syracuse University Press
Publication date:	11/18/2005
Series:	Middle East Studies Beyond Dominant Paradigms Ser.
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	184
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.61(d)

Editorial Reviews

"Abou-el-Haj's study will stimulate general readers to rethink the Ottoman experience, to reexamine its main lines of development, to ponder the lessons of the Ottoman legacy for both the Middle East and southeast Europe. Specialists will want to reexamine their own assumptions."

From the Publisher

Abou-el-Haj's study will stimulate general readers to rethink the Ottoman experience, to reexamine its main lines of development, to ponder the lessons of the Ottoman legacy for both the Middle East and southeast Europe. Specialists will want to reexamine their own assumptions . . . . Perhaps the greatest contribution of this study is to challenge readers to think of the Ottoman experience as 'normal,' as subject to the same pressures and tensions which have faced people in other times and places.

Digest of Middle East Studies

Abou-El-Haj (history, California State U.) challenges the current paradigm of societal decline as inadequate for understanding the Ottoman society and state during its middle centuries, and points to evidence that it was entirely comparable to its European and Asian contemporaries. Paper edition (unseen), $12.95. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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