Formation of the modern state: the Ottoman Empire, sixteenth to eighteenth centuries
ISBN: 9780815630852
Platform/Publisher: ACLS / Syracuse University Press
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Ten pages at a time; Download: Ten pages at a time
Subjects: Middle Eastern: 632-1918;

With extensive new material, this classic book - now in a second edition - challenges the current paradigm of the societal decline as inadequate for understanding the Ottoman society and state during this period. 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.

Rifa'at 'Ali Abou-El-Haj , professor at Binghamton University, New York, is author of The Rebellion of 1703 and the Structure of Ottoman Politics .

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