Ottoman Imperial Diplomacy : a Political, Social and Cultural History
The Ottoman Empire maintained a complex and powerful bureaucratic system which enforced the Sultan's authority across the imperial territories. This bureaucracy continued to gain in power and prestige, even as the empire itself began to crumble at the end of the nineteenth century. Through extensive new research in the Ottoman archives, Do?an Gürp?nar assesses the intellectual, cultural and ideological foundations of the diplomatic service under Sultan Abdülhamid II. Ottoman Imperial Diplomacy presents a new model for understanding the formation of the modern Turkish nation, arguing that the H
eBook, English, 2014
I.B. Tauris ; Distributed in the U.S. and Canada exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, London, New York, 2014
Library of Ottoman studies, vol. 33
History
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; 1. NATIONALISM AND THE ANCIEN RÉGIME: POLITICS OF THE TANZIMAT; 2. PRIMACY OF INTERNATIONAL POLITICS: DIPLOMACY AND APPROPRIATION OF THE NEW KNOWLEDGE
3. A SOCIAL PORTRAIT OF THE DIPLOMATIC SERVICE; 4. THE ROUTINE OF THE DIPLOMATIC SERVICE AND ITS ENCOUNTERS ABROAD; 5. THE MENTALITIES AND DISPOSITIONS OF THE DIPLOMATIC SERVICE: THE GREAT TRANSFORMATION; 6. THE EUROPEAN PATTERNS AND THE OTTOMAN FOREIGN OFFICE; 7. PASSAGES OF THE DIPLOMATIC SERVICE FROM THE EMPIRE TO THE REPUBLIC; CONCLUSION; NOTES; INDEX