The invention of tradition as public image in the Late Ottoman Empire, 1808 to 1908
The nineteenth century, a time when world history seemed to accelerate, was the epoch of the Risorgimento and the Unification of Germany. It was also an epoch which saw the last efforts of dynastic ancien régime empires (Habsburg, Romanov, Ottoman) to shore up their political systems with methods of...
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1993
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10725/6604 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0010417500018247 http://libraries.lau.edu.lb/research/laur/terms-of-use/articles.php https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/comparative-studies-in-society-and-history/article/the-invention-of-tradition-as-public-image-in-the-late-ottoman-empire-1808-to-1908/C0B948EDDB7660C82119D5D8E8C7EFF6 |
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| Summary: | The nineteenth century, a time when world history seemed to accelerate, was the epoch of the Risorgimento and the Unification of Germany. It was also an epoch which saw the last efforts of dynastic ancien régime empires (Habsburg, Romanov, Ottoman) to shore up their political systems with methods often borrowed from their adversaries, the nationalist liberals. Eric Hobsbawm's inspiring recent study has pointed out that, in the world after the French Revolution, it was no longer enough for monarchies to claim divine right; additional ideological reinforcement was required: “The need to provide a new, or at least a supplementary, ‘national’ foundation for this institution was felt in states as secure from revolution as George III's Britain and Nicholas I's Russia.” |
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