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Rise of the Bourgeoisie, Demise of Empire: Ottoman Westernization and Social Change

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Rise of the Bourgeoisie, Demise of Empire: Ottoman Westernization and Social Change - Gocek, Fatma Muge
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What are the causes of imperial decline? This work studies the Ottoman empire in the 18th and 19th centuries to argue that the Ottoman imperial decline resulted from a combination of Ottoman internal dynamics with external influences. Specifically, it contends that the split within the Ottoman social structure across ethno-religious lines interacted with the effects of war and commerce with the West to produce a bifurcated Ottoman bourgeoisie. This bourgeoisie, divided into disparate commercial and bureaucratic elements, ...

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Rise of the Bourgeoisie, Demise of Empire: Ottoman Westernization and Social Change 1996, Oxford University Press, USA, New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9780195099256

Hardcover