by Rifa'at'AliAbou-El-Haj (Author)
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.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 183
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: Nov 2005
ISBN 10: 0815630859
ISBN 13: 9780815630852