{"product_id":"books-the-second-ottoman-empire-by-baki-tezcan","title":"The Second Ottoman Empire","description":"Although scholars have begun to revise the traditional view that the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries marked a decline in the fortunes of the Ottoman Empire, Baki Tezcan's book proposes a radical approach to this period. While he concurs that decline did take place in certain areas, he constructs a new framework by foregrounding the proto-democratization of the Ottoman polity in this era. Focusing on the background and the aftermath of the regicide of Osman II, he shows how the empire embarked on a period of seismic change in the political, economic, military, and social spheres. It is this period - from roughly 1580 to 1826 - that the author labels 'The Second Empire', and that he sees as no less than the transformation of the patrimonial, medieval, dynastic institution into a fledgling limited monarchy. The book is essentially a post-revisionist history of the early modern Ottoman Empire that will make a major contribution not only to Ottoman scholarship but also to comparable trends in world history.","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53672841281809,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781107411449_9a7003ae-0100-4b20-8a11-3871837f09f5.jpg?v=1781521479","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/books-the-second-ottoman-empire-by-baki-tezcan","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}