16: A Failed Byzantine Restoration: How the Ottoman Empire Survived the 18th Century (Part One)

Core Reading:

Grant, Jonathan. “Rethinking the Ottoman ‘Decline’: Military Technology Diffusion in the Ottoman Empire, Fifteenth to Eighteenth Centuries.” Journal of World History, vol. 10, no. 1, University of Hawai’i Press, 1999, pp. 179–201.

http://www.jstor.org/stable/20078753.

Philliou, Christine. “Communities on the Verge: Unraveling the Phanariot Ascendancy in Ottoman Governance.” Comparative Studies in Society and History, vol. 51, no. 1, [Society for Comparative Studies in Society and History, Cambridge University Press], 2009, pp. 151–81.

http://www.jstor.org/stable/27563734.

Stoianovich, Traian. “Factors in the Decline of Ottoman Society in the Balkans.” Slavic Review, vol. 21, no. 4, Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, 1962, pp. 623–32.

https://doi.org/10.2307/3000577.

Zorin, Andrei, et al. “Russians as Greeks: Catherine II’s ‘Greek Project’ and the Russian Ode of the 1760s–70s.” By Fables Alone: Literature and State Ideology in Late Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century Russia, Academic Studies Press, 2014, pp. 24–60.

https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt1zxsj45.6.

Further Reading:

“The Ottoman Empire in the Eighteenth Century.” Turkish Studies Association Bulletin, vol. 16, no. 2, Indiana University Press, 1992, pp. 179–216.

http://www.jstor.org/stable/43385332.