Rise of the bourgeoisie, demise of empire ottoman westernization and social change. print on demand

"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, was able to challenge the sultan but was ultimately unable to salvage the."@en
"The momentous changes in Western countries in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries did not occur in the same manner outside the West. The reasons why have long been the subject of debate. Early explanations, fraught with Western bias, have now been largely rejected, but their hidden assumptions persist and are ripe for reevaluation. In Rise of the Bourgeoisie, Demise of Empire, Fatma Muge Gocek challenges the contention that Westernization or the absence of a bourgeoisie caused Ottoman decline. She presents instead a revisionist account of the decline, one that reveals the unique complexities of social change in a non-Western context and proposes a truer paradigm for non-Western social change."

"Rise of the bourgeoisie, demise of empire ottoman westernization and social change. print on demand"@en
"Rise of the bourgeoisie, demise of Empire : Ottoman westernization and social change"
"Rise of the bourgeoisie, demise of empire Ottoman westernization and social change"@en
"Rise of the bourgeoisie, demise of empire Ottoman westernization and social change"
"Rise of the bourgeoisie, demise of empire : Ottoman westernization and social change"@en
"Rise of the bourgeoisie, demise of empire : Ottoman westernization and social change"