TY  - GEN
T1  - Bureaucratic reform in the Ottoman Empire : the Sublime Porte, 1789-1922
T2  - Princeton studies on the Near East.
A1  - Findley, Carter V., 1941-
LA  - English
PP  - Princeton, N.J.
PB  - Princeton University Press
YR  - 1980
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocm57138879
AB  - From the author's preface: Sublime Porte--there must be few terms more redolent, even today, of the fascination that the Islamic Middle East has long exercised over Western imaginations. Yet there must also be few Western minds that now know what this term refers to, or why it has any claim to attention. One present-day Middle East expert admits to having long interpreted the expression as a reference to Istambul's splendid natural harbor. This individual is probably not unique and could perhaps claim to be relatively well informed. When the Sublime Porte still existed, Westerners who spent time in Istanbul knew the term as a designation for the Ottoman government, but few knew why the name was used, or what aspect of the Ottoman government it properly designated. What was the real Sublime Porte? Was it an organization? A building? No more, literally, than a door or gateway? What about it was important enough to cause the name to be remembered? In one sense, the purpose of this book is to answer these questions. Of course, it will also do much more and will, in the process, move quickly onto a plane quite different from the exoticism just invoked. For to study the bureaucratic complex properly known as the Sublime Porte, and to analyze its evolution and that of the body of men who staffed it, is to explore a problem of tremendous significance for the development of the administrative institutions of the Ottoman Empire, the Islamic lands in general, and in some senses the entire non-Westerrn world.
OP  - 455
CN  - JQ1806.Z1 F55eb
SN  - 9781400820092
SN  - 140082009X
SN  - 1283539829
SN  - 9781283539821
SN  - 9786613852274
SN  - 6613852279
SN  - 0691052883
SN  - 9780691052885
KW  - Bureaucracy : Turkey.
KW  - Turkey : Politics and government : 19th century.
KW  - Bureaucratie : Turquie.
KW  - Empire ottoman : Politique et gouvernement : 19e siècle.
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE : Public Affairs & Administration.
KW  - HISTORY : Middle East : Turkey & Ottoman Empire.
KW  - Bureaucracy
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Turkey
KW  - Bureaucratie : Empire ottoman : 19e siècle.
KW  - Administration publique : Réforme : Empire ottoman : 19e siècle.
KW  - 1800-1899
ER  -