The Longest Century of the Empire

Back Cover Text (From the Promotional Bulletin)

“Ottoman modernization is an autocratic modernization. Internal and external developments dragged the empire from this autocratic modernization to a constitutional monarchy in the last forty years of its life. The empire bequeathed political institutions such as the parliament, political party staff and the press to the young Republic. The physicians, scientists, lawyers, historians and philologists of the Republic emerged from the Ottoman intellectuals of the last period. At first, the Republic inherited the education system, university, administrative organization and financial system from the empire. The Republican revolutionaries started out not with a medieval society, but with a society that was a remnant of the empire that had spent the last century in the throes of modernization. One of the elements that spurred the radicalism of the Republic was the Ottoman modernization, which was not radical enough.

Knowing the strength and weakness of today's Turkey's political-social institutions is possible by better understanding the recent Ottoman modernization history.

The 19th century was the most active, painful, tiring and long century of the entire Ottoman community; "The most important events and institutions that prepare the future constitute the history of this century."

-İlber Ortaylı-

İlber Ortaylı's masterpiece, which deals with the modernization process and political, social and cultural changes in the Ottoman Empire in the 19th century, is in Kronik Kitap with its revised edition. The book, which has been translated into many languages such as Arabic, German and Greek, deals with the history of late Ottoman modernization.

Dough Type: 2nd Dough

Size: 13.5 x 21

First Print Year: 2018

Number of Printings: 1st Edition