The Ottoman Empire, 1700-1922

Donald Quataert9780521547826, 0521547822

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.

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Table of contents :
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