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The European Tributary States of the Ottoman Empire in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Author(s): Gábor Kármán (Editor), Lovro Kunčević
- Publisher: Brill
- Publication Date: June 20, 2013
- Edition: 1st
- Language: English
- Print length: 460 pages
- ISBN-10: 9004246061
- ISBN-13: 9789004246065
Book Description
The European Tributary States of the Ottoman Empire is the first comprehensive overview of the empire’s relationship to its various European tributaries, Moldavia, Wallachia, Transylvania, Ragusa, the Crimean Khanate and the Cossack Hetmanate. The volume focuses on three fundamental aspects of the empire’s relationship with these polities: the various legal frameworks which determined their positions within the imperial system, the diplomatic contacts through which they sought to influence the imperial center, and the military cooperation between them and the Porte. Bringing together studies by eminent experts and presenting results of several less-known historiographical traditions, this volume contributes significantly to a deeper understanding of Ottoman power at the peripheries of the empire.
Editorial Reviews
Review
‘The major success of the volume is that the authors managed to challenge an approach deeply enrooted in many national historiographies, in which the alleged statuses of the Early Modern states seem to reflect more the questions of national dignity that are articulated today by their successors than they do any reliable assessment of the available sources. The authors whose essays have been included in this volume have situated their research within the context of modern Ottoman studies in order to focus not on the struggles of the tributaries for self-governance associated with autonomy and, furthermore, with the independence of the respective states, but rather on peculiarities of their functioning within the Ottoman Empire’.
Tetiana Grygorieva in
Hungarian Historical Review 4, no. 2 (2015): 502–536About the Author
Gábor Kármán, Ph. D. (2009), Eötvös Loránd University, is a research fellow at the Center for the History and Culture of East Central Europe in Leipzig. He is the author of the monograph Transylvanian Foreign Policy after the Peace of Westphalia (in Hungarian).
Lovro Kunčević, Ph.D. (2012), Central European University, is a research fellow at the Institute for Historical Sciences of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Dubrovnik. He has published on the ideology, identity and institutions of medieval and early modern Dubrovnik.
