{"product_id":"the-second-ottoman-empire-baki-tezcan-9781107411449","title":"The Second Ottoman Empire: Political and Social Transformation in the Early Modern World","description":"Although scholars have begun to revise the traditional view that the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries marked a decline in the fortunes of the Ottoman Empire, Baki Tezcan's book proposes a radical new approach to this period. While he concurs that decline did take place in certain areas, he constructs a new framework by foregrounding the proto-democratization of the Ottoman polity in this era. Focusing on the background and the aftermath of the regicide of Osman II, he shows how the empire embarked on a period of seismic change in the political, economic, military, and social spheres. It is this period - from roughly 1580 to 1826 - that the author labels \"The Second Empire,\" and that he sees as no less than the transformation of the patrimonial, medieval, dynastic institution into a fledgling limited monarchy. The book is essentially a post-revisionist history of the early modern Ottoman Empire that will make a major contribution not only to Ottoman scholarship but also to comparable trends in world history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Baki Tezcan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1107411440\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781107411449\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cambridge University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/25\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 306\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.91lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.64d","brand":"Baki Tezcan","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46670404944127,"sku":"9781107411449","price":48.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d3aeaa2d-9fd5-46fc-acb6-0e217df78b3a.jpg?v=1741316877","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-second-ottoman-empire-baki-tezcan-9781107411449","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}