Research Catalog

Title

Ottoman wars 1700-1870 : an empire besieged / Virginia H. Aksan.

Author

Aksan, Virginia H.

Publication

Harlow, England : Longman/Pearson, 2007.

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Details

Description

xx, 599 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.

Summary

"This book examines the social transformation of the Ottoman military system in an era of global imperialism. Using close analysis of select campaigns, Aksan discusses the Ottoman Empire's changing internal military context, before addressing the modernized regimental organisation under Sultan Mahmud II after 1826. Featuring illustrations and maps, many of which have never been published before, this book draws on previously untapped source material to provide an original account of an empire nearing financial and societal collapse, and the successes and failures of a military system under siege. The book is a study of the decline of an international power, raising questions about the influence of culture on warfare."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Modern wars in perspective

Uniform Title

Modern wars in perspective.

Subjects

• 1700-1899
• History
• Warfare and history
• Turkey > History > 19th century
• Turkey > History > 18th century

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [522]-558) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The political map of Central and Eastern Europe circa 1700 -- The Ottoman system -- From Prut to Belgrade: illusions of success and failure -- The Austrian -Russian -Ottoman Danube waltz, 1768-92 -- Selim III and the new order (Nizâm-ı Cedid) -- The internal and external challenges to Selim III -- Mahmud II and the new absolutism -- The Auspicious occasion and its consequences -- An empire returns to war -- From Tanzimat to Crimean War -- Completing the northern arc.

ISBN

• 0582308070 (pbk.)
• 9780582308077 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2006051393

OCLC

• 71146645
• SCSB-12243215

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library