Chapter One: Shaping the Empire

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Dramatis Personae xiii
5. Introduction 1
6. Chapter One: Shaping the Empire 12
7. Chapter Two: The Age of Transformation in Ottoman Political Thought 34
8. Chapter Three: The Tanzimat Era and the Republicanism of the Young Ottomans 50
9. Chapter Four: The Positivist Universalism and Republicanism of the Young Turks 86
10. Chapter Five: The Political Thought of the Young Turk Revolution 115
11. Chapter Six: Political Thought in the Balkan Wars 138
12. Chapter Seven: Ottoman Political Thought during World War I 165
13. Chapter Eight: The War of Independence (1919–22) 196
14. Chapter Nine: The Victory of Radical Republicanism 219
15. Conclusion: The Ideology of the Early Republic 243
16. Bibliography 253
17. Index 283