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

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

With extensive new material, this classic book 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.

Author Biography

Rifa'at 'Ali Abou-El-Haj is professor of modern Near East and European history at the State University of New York at Binghamton. He is the author of The Rebellion of 1703 and the Structure of Ottoman Politics and coeditor, with I. Bierman and D. Preziosi, of Ottoman Power and Urban Structure.