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This book contributes to Ottoman history and modern Middle East studies with theoretical implications beyond both. The author challenges the current paradigm of societal decline as inadequate for understanding the Ottoman society and state during this period, and he proposes our examining the signs of modernity and vitality which made the middle centuries of Ottoman rule entirely comparable with its European and Asian counterparts.

Produktbeschreibung
This book contributes to Ottoman history and modern Middle East studies with theoretical implications beyond both. The author challenges the current paradigm of societal decline as inadequate for understanding the Ottoman society and state during this period, and he proposes our examining the signs of modernity and vitality which made the middle centuries of Ottoman rule entirely comparable with its European and Asian counterparts.
Autorenporträt
Rifa'at 'Ali Abou-El-Haj is Professor of Modern European and Near Eastern History at California State University, Long Beach. He is the author of The Rebellion of 1703 and the Structure of Ottoman Politics, and he is co-author of The Ottoman Urban Environment.