| Description |
xv, 256 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Studies on the history of society and culture ; 50 |
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Studies on the history of society and culture ; 50
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| Contents |
Introduction: The Content and Form of This Study -- Pt I. Foundations. 1. The Plot -- 2. The Formation and Study of Ottoman Historiography -- 3. An Interpretive Framework -- Pt II. Historiography. 4. Tuǧi's Representation of the Haile-i Osmaniye: The Perspective of the Imperial Army -- 5. The Formation of Alternative Narratives: Hasanbeyzade and Peçevi -- 6. The Conception of the State Narrative -- Pt III. The State. 7. The Early Modern Ottoman State: History and Theory -- 8. The Ottoman State as a Discursively Contested Field -- Epilogue: Poetics of Ottoman Historiography: Preliminary Notes |
| Summary |
"In the space of six years early in the seventeenth century, the Ottoman Empire underwent such turmoil and trauma - the assassination of the young ruler Osman II, the re-enthronement and subsequent abdication of his mad uncle Mustafa I, for a start - that a scholar pronounced the period's three-day-long dramatic climax "an Ottoman Tragedy." In Gabriel Pieterberg's analysis, this period of crisis becomes a historical laboratory for the history of the Ottoman Empire in the seventeenth century - an opportunity to observe the dialectical play between history as experience and history as a recounting of that experience." |
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"Piterberg reconstructs the Ottoman narration of this fraught period from the foundational test, produced in the early 1620s, until the composition of the state narrative at the end of the seventeenth century. His work brings theories of historiography into dialogue with the interpretation of Ottoman historical texts, even as it forces a rethinking of both Ottoman historiography and the Ottoman state in the seventeenth century. Ultimately, Piterberg argues that the historiographical discourse was inextricably intertwined with the history - the actual development - of the Ottoman state in the seventeenth century. A reinterpretation of a major event in Ottoman history, his work reconceives the relation between historiography and history - with relevance well beyond the period in question."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliography (pages 233-241), glossary and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Historiography -- Turkey.
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| SUBJECT |
Turkey -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85138799
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| LC no. |
2002152983 |
| ISBN |
0520238362 cloth |
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0520238370 paper |
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