A brief history of the late Ottoman Empire

Abstract

List of Figures ix Acknowledgments xi Note on Transliteration, Place Names, and Dates xiii Introduction 1 Chapter 1: The Ottoman Empire at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century 6 Chapter 2: Initial Ottoman Responses to the Challenge of Modernity 42 Chapter 3: The Dawn of the Age of Reform 55 Chapter 4: The Tanzimat Era 72 Chapter 5: The Twilight of the Tanzimat and the Hamidian Regime 109 Chapter 6: From Revolution to Imperial Collapse: The Longest Decade of the Late Ottoman Empire 150 Conclusion 203 Further Reading in Major European Languages 213 Bibliography 217 Index 231