The Ottoman Empire, 1700-1922

The Ottoman Empire, 1700-1922, Second Edition......Page 1
Copyright Info......Page 5
Dedication......Page 6
TOC......Page 8
Plates......Page 9
Maps......Page 10
Preface......Page 12
Guide to pronunciation of Turkish words and a note on place names......Page 15
Genealogy of the Ottoman dynasty......Page 17
Chronology of Ottoman history, 1260-1923......Page 18
Introduction......Page 24
Ottoman history in world history......Page 26
The Ottoman Empire in European culture......Page 29
Suggested bibliography......Page 34
Origins of the Ottoman state......Page 36
Expansion and consolidation of the Ottoman state, 1300–1683......Page 43
How to explain this remarkable record of Ottoman success?......Page 48
Evolution of the state until the late seventeenth century......Page 55
Suggested bibliography......Page 58
The wars of contraction, c. 1683–1798......Page 60
State economic policies......Page 64
Intra-elite political life at the imperial center......Page 65
Elite–popular struggles in Istanbul......Page 67
Political life in the provinces......Page 69
Religious solutions to political and military weakness......Page 73
Suggested bibliography......Page 74
The wars of contraction and internal rebellions......Page 77
Overview: evolution of the Ottoman state, 1808–1922......Page 84
Ongoing transformation of Ottoman state–subject and subject–subject relationships......Page 88
Nationalism and the nineteenth-century Ottoman Middle East......Page 91
Foreign capital and the nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire......Page 94
Suggested bibliography......Page 95
The Ottoman Empire in the international order, 1700–1922......Page 98
From occasional to continuous methods of diplomacy......Page 100
The caliphate as a special tool of Ottoman diplomacy......Page 106
Ottoman relations with states in Europe, Iran, central Asia, India, and North Africa: relations with Europe......Page 108
Relations with Iran and central Asia......Page 109
Relations with rulers in India......Page 110
Relations with North African states......Page 111
Suggested bibliography......Page 112
The Ottoman dynasty: principles of succession......Page 113
Means of dynastic legitimation......Page 116
Aspects of Ottoman administration......Page 122
Center–province relations......Page 125
Center–province relations: Damascus, 1708–17586......Page 126
Center–province relations: Nablus, 1798–18409......Page 129
Suggested bibliography......Page 133
Population......Page 134
Transportation......Page 142
Commerce......Page 149
Agriculture......Page 153
Manufacturing......Page 157
Suggested bibliography......Page 163
An overview of social relations among groups......Page 165
Changing social mobility and clothing laws......Page 166
Ottoman private spaces......Page 174
Structure of the home......Page 175
New public spaces......Page 180
The coffee house and the bathhouse......Page 183
Other forms and sites of sociability......Page 184
Su. brotherhoods and their lodges......Page 185
Tombs of the saints......Page 186
Holidays......Page 187
Reading and literacy......Page 191
Suggested bibliography......Page 195
Inter-communal relations: an overview......Page 197
Residential patterns and inter-communal relations......Page 202
Other evidence of inter-communal sharing......Page 204
Inter-communal relations in the workplace......Page 205
The Armenian massacres of 1915–19166......Page 209
Nationalism and the end of the Ottoman Empire......Page 211
Suggested bibliography......Page 215
10 Legacies of the Ottoman Empire......Page 218
Suggested bibliography......Page 224
Index......Page 226