The First of the Modern Ottomans

• Author(s): Ethan L. Menchinger,
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Pages: 319
• ISBN_10: 110719797X
  ISBN_13: 9781107197978
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Biography & Autobiography / General , Biography & Autobiography / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / Arab & Middle Eastern , Biography & Autobiography / Historical , Biography & Autobiography / Political , History / Europe / General , History / Middle East / General , History / Military / General , History / Modern / General , History / Middle East / Turkey & Ottoman Empire ,

Description:... Cover -- Half-title page -- Reviews -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Maps -- Acknowledgments -- Note on the Text -- Dramatis Personae -- Chronology -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Out of the East: Early Life (ca. 1735-1768) -- 2 At War (1768-1774) -- 2.1 The Danubian Front, 1768-1771 -- 2.2 Failed Peace Efforts, 1772-1773 -- 2.3 The Shock of Defeat, 1773-1774 -- 3 Years of Faction and Reform (1774-1787) -- 3.1 Professional Eclipse, 1774-1779 -- 3.2 A Spokesman for Reform, 1779-1783 -- 3.3 The "Lesser of Two Evils," 1783-1784 -- 3.4 Collapse of the Reform Faction, 1784-1787 -- 4 "Honorable Exile": In Spain (1787-1788) -- 4.1 On Foreign Shores, 1787 -- 4.2 Observing an Enlightened Court, 1787-1788 -- 5 At War (1788-1792) -- 5.1 Wartime Istanbul, 1788-1791 -- 5.2 The Danubian Front, 1791 -- 5.3 The Maçin Boycott, 1791 -- 5.4 "Blackguard" in the Provinces, 1791-1792 -- 6 Vâsıf and the New Order (1792-1800) -- 6.1 The View from Outside, 1792-1793 -- 6.2 "Charms and Truths," 1793-1794 -- 6.3 From Exile to Consolation, 1794-1798 -- 6.4 New Wars, New Rewards, 1798-1800 -- 7 The Height of Fame (1800-1806) -- 7.1 Reform and its Discontents, 1800-1802 -- 7.2 Rewriting the Past, 1802-1805 -- 7.3 Chief Scribe, 1805-1806 -- Epilogue: Vâsıf as Ancient and Modern -- 8.1 In Death and the Afterlife -- 8.2 Vâsıf and Ottoman History -- Appendix: On the Authorship of the Final Word to Refute the Rabble -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index