Ebook: Ottoman imperial diplomacy: a political, social and cultural history

Machine generated contents note: 1.Nationalism and the ancien régime: politics of the Tanzimat -- 2.Primacy of international politics: diplomacy and appropriation of the "new knowledge" -- 3.A social portrait of the diplomatic service -- 4.The routine of the diplomatic service and its encounters abroad -- 5.The mentalities and dispositions of the diplomatic service: the great transformation -- 6.The European patterns and the Ottoman Foreign Office -- 7.Passages of the diplomatic service from the Empire to the Republic.;The Ottoman Empire maintained a complex and powerful bureaucratic system which enforced the Sultan's authority across the imperial 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 Grupinar assesses the intellectual, cultural and ideological foundations of the diplomatic service under Sultan Abdulhamid II. Ottoman Imperial Diplomacy presents a new model for understanding the formation of the modern Turkish nation, arguing that the Hamidian imperial bureaucracy and the ethos this bureaucracy fostered - was constitutive in the emergence of Turkish nationalism. This book will be essential reading for historians of the Ottoman Empire and for those seeking to understand the history of Modern Turkey. -- Publisher.