Formation of the Modern State: The Ottoman Empire, Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries, Second Edition - Paperback

by Rifa'at Abou-El-Haj (Author)

Rifa'at 'Ali Abou-El-Haj reevaluates the established historical view of the Ottoman Empire as an eastern despotic nation-state in decline and instead analyzes it as a modern state comparable to contemporary states in Europe and Asia.