Yonca Köksal on Ottoman modernisation from the ground up
October 12, 2021
Turkey Book Talk episode #152 – Yonca Köksal, associate professor of history at Koç University, on “The Ottoman Empire in the Tanzimat Era: Provincial Perspectives from Ankara to Edirne” (Routledge).
The book compares and contrasts the application of the Ottoman Empire’s modernising, centralising Tanzimat reforms of the 19th century in the Balkan province of Edirne and the central Anatolian province of Ankara.
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October 15, 2021 at 5:38 pm
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