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HIST 562 Ottoman Reform Movements II: Political and Social (1839-1918)
3 Credits
Intellectual and social issues prevalent in present- day
Turkey have their antecedents in 19th century
Ottoman Empire. Ottoman 19th century was a period
where old and new, reform and reaction
met each other. In fact, this was an era where the empire
was shaken by series of wars and crisis of
disintegration. Reformist bureaucrats applied policies to
forestall this process, while the intelligentsia vehemently
opposed authoritarian reforms. Discussions
on the future of the empire became most fruitful during
the first four years of the Second
Constitutional Period (1908-1912) when people enjoyed
some degree of liberal freedom. Public
discussions came to an abrupt end when the Committee
of Union and Progress established military
dictatorship (1913-1918). As a whole, this "long nineteenth
century" was an era where institutional foundations
of Turkish modernization were laid down.
This course aims to introduce, discuss, and understand
Ottoman reform movements and thoughts
of the last hundred year of Ottoman existence, based
on the evaluation of reformist statesmen
of the Tanzimat-period, oppositional intellectuals of the
1860s and 1870s, conservative attitude
of Hamidian absolutism (1878-1908), and Young Turk
reformist ideas of the last decades
of Ottoman existence (1889-1918)
Last Offered Terms
Course Name
SU Credit
Fall 2007-2008
Ottoman Reform Movements II: Political and Social (1839-1918)
3
Prerequisite: __
Corequisite: __
ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year)
General Requirements:
| HIST 562 Ottoman Reform Movements II: Political and Social (1839-1918) | 3 Credits | ||||||
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| Intellectual and social issues prevalent in present- day Turkey have their antecedents in 19th century Ottoman Empire. Ottoman 19th century was a period where old and new, reform and reaction met each other. In fact, this was an era where the empire was shaken by series of wars and crisis of disintegration. Reformist bureaucrats applied policies to forestall this process, while the intelligentsia vehemently opposed authoritarian reforms. Discussions on the future of the empire became most fruitful during the first four years of the Second Constitutional Period (1908-1912) when people enjoyed some degree of liberal freedom. Public discussions came to an abrupt end when the Committee of Union and Progress established military dictatorship (1913-1918). As a whole, this "long nineteenth century" was an era where institutional foundations of Turkish modernization were laid down. This course aims to introduce, discuss, and understand Ottoman reform movements and thoughts of the last hundred year of Ottoman existence, based on the evaluation of reformist statesmen of the Tanzimat-period, oppositional intellectuals of the 1860s and 1870s, conservative attitude of Hamidian absolutism (1878-1908), and Young Turk reformist ideas of the last decades of Ottoman existence (1889-1918) | |||||||
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| ECTS Credit: 10 ECTS (10 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) | |||||||
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