
Название: Ottoman Imperial Diplomacy: A Political, Social and Cultural History
Автор: Gürpınar, Doğan
Издательство: I.B. Tauris
Год: 2014
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 359
Размер: 14.5 Мб
Язык: English
The Ottoman Empire maintained a complex and powerful bureaucratic system which enforced the Sultan's authority across the Empire's Middle-Eastern territories. This bureaucracy continued to gain in power and prestige, even as the empire itself began to crumble at the end of the nineteenth century. Through extensive new research in the Ottoman archives, Dogan Gurpinar assesses the intellectual, cultural and ideological foundations of the diplomatic service under Sultan Abdülhamid II.