The Ottoman Crisis in Western Anatolia: Turkey's Belle Epoque and the Transition to a Modern Nation State (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781784534707)

Ottoman Turkey's coastal provinces in the early nineteenth century were economic powerhouses, teeming with innovation, wealth and energy a legacy of the Ottoman s outward-looking and trade-orientated diplomacy. By the middle of the century, the wide-ranging and radical process of modernisation known collectively as the Tanzimat was underway, in part a symptom of a slow decline in Ottoman financial strength. By the 1920s, the coastal cities were ghost towns. The Ottoman Crisis in Western Anatolia seeks to unpick how and why this happened. A detailed, rich and authoritative regional study, this book offers a unique and original insight into the effects of forced migration, displacement, economic re-organisation and the competing political ideologies focused on modernisation all of which are central to the study of the late Ottoman Empire.

Author: Emre Erol
ISBN-10: 1784534706
ISBN-13: 9781784534707
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 01/22/2016
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.97lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.30w x 0.90d