CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2008
| Author | De Vizcaya Corzo, Laura |
|---|---|
| Title | The Tanzimat and Local Communities: Impact of the Early Tanzimat Reforms in the Ottoman Periphery |
| Summary | The topic of this thesis falls into the analysis of imperial responses to the challenges of modernization, and is related to the examination of Ottoman legacy in the development of inter-ethnic conflicts in the regions that once formed part of the Ottoman domains. It shows that to understand the development of inter-ethnic conflicts in the Balkan territories it is necessary to consider the imperial legacy as a basis. Therefore, it locates the topic in a broader context which suggests the analysis of the changes that impacted the cohesive measures of Ottoman society. This thesis deals mainly with the Ottoman Empire’s response to the challenges of modernization in the early nineteenth century. Therefore, it focuses on the reforms in the military and treasury institutions which were intended to establish centralizing measures to retake control of the imperial subjects; but, that as a secondary effect weakened the institutions modifying the bonds that had kept Ottoman society together over their plural distinctions. I claim that the administrative and social changes that the Ottoman state adopted in 1839 and 1856 also modified the terms of the relationship between the ruling and subject classes in the Empire. Therefore, the changes adopted with the promulgation of the Gülhane Rescript (1839) and the Hatt-i Hamayun (1856) altered the dynamic that sustained the coexistence of multi-ethnic and multi-religious groups in the Ottoman periphery, opening the possibility for the consolidation of projects of self-determination and emancipation. |
| Supervisor | Deringil, Selim; Miller, Alexei |
| Department | History MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2008/de-vizcaya-corzo_laura.pdf |
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