Description |
1 online resource (xxx, 286 pages) : illustrations, maps |
Series |
ACLS Fellows' Publications
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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.
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SUBJECT |
Vogorides, Stephanos, 1780-1859 fast |
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Phanariots -- Turkey -- History -- 19th century
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HISTORY -- General.
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HISTORY -- Middle East -- General.
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Phanariots
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Regions & Countries - Europe.
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History & Archaeology.
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Balkan Peninsula.
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SUBJECT |
Turkey -- History -- Tanzimat, 1839-1876.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh89003917
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Subject |
Turkey
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780520947757 |
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0520947754 |
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