LA TURQUIE ET LE TANZIMAT OU HISTOIRE DES REFORMES, Eduard Engelhardt, Paris, 1882, Ottoman Empire, First Edition

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Eduard Engelhardt

LA TURQUIE ET LE TANZIMAT

ou

Histoire des reforms dans l’ Empire Ottoman

depuis 1826 jusqu’a nos jours

 

TURKEY AND THE TANZIMAT OR A HISTORY OF REFORMS

 

Published by A. Cotillon

Printed in Paris in  1882

Octavo, Pages 283

First Edition First Printing

Language: French

Contemporary Leather Binding, Title Page restored else fine condition

 

The Tanzimat was a period of reform in the Ottoman Empire that began with the Gülhane Hatt-ı Şerif in 1839 and ended with the First Constitutional Era in 1876. The Tanzimat era began with the purpose not of radical transformation, but of modernization, desiring to consolidate the social and political foundations of the Ottoman Empire. It was characterized by various attempts to modernize the Ottoman Empire and to secure its territorial integrity against internal nationalist movements and external aggressive powers. The reforms encouraged Ottomanism among the diverse ethnic groups of the Empire and attempted to stem the tide of the rise of nationalism in the Ottoman Empire.
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