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Bureaucratic reform in the Ottoman Empire: the Sublime Porte, 1789-1922

Carter V. Findley
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  • Contents

  • Reviews

  • Frontmatter
  • List of Illustrations (page xiii)
  • List of Figures (page xv)
  • Preface (page xvii)
  • Acknowledgments (page xxi)
  • Notes on Usage (page xxv)
  • List of Special Abbreviations (page xxxi)
  • ONE. INTRODUCTION: THE SUBLIME PORTE AND THE SCRIBAL SERVICE AS ELEMENTS OF STATE AND SOCIETY (page 3)
    • The Sublime Porte and the Scribal Service as Elements of the Imperial "Center" (page 6)
    • The Ruling Class as an Element of the Broader Society: Problems of Social Organization (page 18)
    • Conclusion (page 40)
  • TWO. THE EVOLUTION OF THE RULING CLASS AND THE EMERGENCE OF THE SCRIBAL SERVICE (page 41)
    • The Evolution of the Ruling Class in the Traditional State: A Problem in Historical Interpretation (page 43)
    • The Evolution of the Ruling Class in the Era of Reform: Would the Scribal Service Remain Preeminent? (page 58)
    • Conclusion: The Developmental Cycles of the Ruling Class and the Political Periods of the Nineteenth Century (page 66)
  • THREE. THE IMPACT OF IMPERIAL DECLINE ON THE EMERGENT SCRIBAL SERVICE: THE SUBLIME PORTE AND ITS OFFICIALS ON THE EVE OF REFORM (page 69)
    • Patterns of Organization and Procedure at the Sublime Porte on the Eve of Reform (page 70)
    • Social Dimensions of the Late Traditional Scribal Service (page 91)
    • Conclusion: The Efendi-Turned-Pasa in Comparative Perspective (page 106)
  • FOUR. REASSERTION OF THE SULTANATE AND FOUNDATION OF THE CIVIL BUREAUCRACY (page 112)
    • Contemporary Perceptions of the Need for Reform (page 114)
    • Reform in the Traditional Scribal Offices of the Sublime Porte (page 120)
    • The Foundation of the Foreign Ministry and the Formation of a Modernist Scribal Elite (page 126)
    • The Later Reforms of Mahmud II: An Autocratic Sultan or a "Patriciate of the Pen"? (page 140)
    • The Record of a Half-Century of Bureaucratic Reform: Characteristics and Limitations of Modernization in the Ottoman Empire (page 147)
  • FIVE. THE CIVIL-BUREAUCRATIC HEGEMONY OF THE TANZIMAT (page 151)
    • Structural Weaknesses of the Civil-Bureaucratic System of the Tanzimat (page 155)
    • The Growth of a Bureaucracy Freed of Outside Control (page 167)
    • Reform and Regulation of the Civil Bureaucracy (page 190)
    • The Sociocultural Impact of the Tanzimat on the Civil Bureaucracy (page 201)
    • Conclusion (page 218)
  • SIX. RESTORING POLITICAL BALANCE: THE FIRST CONSTITUTIONAL PERIOD AND RETURN TO SULTANIC DOMINANCE (page 221)
    • Divergent Tendencies in Efforts at the Restoration of Political Balance (page 224)
    • Organizational Development of the Sublime Porte during the First Constitutional Period and the Reign of Abd ul-Hamid (page 239)
    • Further Steps toward Regulation and Systematization (page 269)
    • Conclusion (page 287)
  • SEVEN. ONCE MORE TOWARD REDEFINITION OF THE POLITICAL BALANCE (page 291)
    • Dismantling the Hamidian System and Purging the Civil Bureaucracy (page 294)
    • The Organizational Development of the Sublime Porte to the Beginning of World War I (page 298)
    • Regulation in Other Fields of Policy and Procedure (page 326)
    • Conclusion (page 336)
  • EIGHT. ONE AND ONE-THIRD CENTURIES OF CIVIL-BUREAUCRATIC REFORM (page 338)
  • APPENDIX. BUDGETARY "ALLOCATIONS" FOR AGENCIES OF THE SUBLIME PORTE IN SELECTED YEARS (page 349)
  • Notes (page 353)
  • Bibliography (page 407)
  • Index (page 421)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
JMH 54.1 (Mar. 1982): 194-197 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0022-2801%28198203%2954%3A1%3C194%3ABRITOE%3E2.0.CO%3B2-A
AHR 86.2 (Apr. 1981): 433-435 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-8762%28198104%2986%3A2%3C433%3ABRITOE%3E2.0.CO%3B2-H
IJMES 16.3 (Aug. 1984): 420-421 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0020-7438%28198408%2916%3A3%3C420%3ABRITOE%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Z
BSOAS 44.2 (1981): 385-386 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0041-977X%281981%2944%3A2%3C385%3ABRITOE%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Q
Citable Link
Published: c1980
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780691052885 (hardcover)
  • 9781400820092 (ebook)
Subject
  • Middle Eastern: 632-1918
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