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Author Philliou, Christine May.

Title Biography of an empire : governing Ottomans in an age of revolution / Christine M. Philliou
Published Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xxx, 286 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series ACLS Fellows' Publications
Contents Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Note on Transliteration; Preface: The View from the Edge of the Center; Stephanos Vogorides' Apologia, November 1852; 1. The Houses of Phanar; 2. Volatile Synthesis; 3. Demolitions; 4. Phanariot Remodeling and the Struggle for Continuity; 5. Diplomacy and the Restoration of a New Order; 6. In the Eye of the Storm; Appendix A: Genealogies of the Vogorides, Musurus, and Aristarchi Families; Appendix B: Phanariot Dignitaries in the Four High Offices of Dragoman (Grand Dragoman; Dragoman of the Fleet) and Voyvoda (of Wallachia and Moldavia), 1661-1821
Summary This vividly detailed revisionist history opens a new vista on the great Ottoman Empire in the early nineteenth century, a key period often seen as the eve of Tanzimat westernizing reforms and the beginning of three distinct histories--ethnic nationalism in the Balkans, imperial modernization from Istanbul, and European colonialism in the Middle East. Christine Philliou brilliantly shines a new light on imperial crisis and change in the 1820s and 1830s by unearthing the life of one man
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-264) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Vogorides, Stephanos, 1780-1859.
SUBJECT Vogorides, Stephanos, 1780-1859 fast
Subject Phanariots -- Turkey -- History -- 19th century
HISTORY -- General.
HISTORY -- Middle East -- General.
Phanariots
Regions & Countries - Europe.
History & Archaeology.
Balkan Peninsula.
SUBJECT Turkey -- History -- Tanzimat, 1839-1876. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh89003917
Subject Turkey
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780520947757
0520947754