Show Summary Details Show The Ottoman Empire: Institutions and Economic Change, 1500–1914
You do not currently have access to this article LoginPlease login to access the full content. SubscribeAccess to the full content requires a subscription • Both China and the Ottoman Empire became more reliant on Western finance than Japan. • The accomplishments of the Industrial Revolution, including the unlocking of the secrets of nature and the creation of a society that enjoyed unprecedented wealth, led Europeans to develop a secular arrogance that fused with or in some cases replaced their long-standing notions of religious superiority. • China's population grew rapidly between 1685 and 1853, but agricultural production was unable to keep up; this led to growing pressure on the land, smaller farms for China's huge peasant population, and, in all too many cases, unemployment, impoverishment, misery, and starvation. • It launched a program of "defensive modernization" that included the establishment of new military and administrative structures alongside traditional institutions as a means of enhancing and centralizing state power. • The Young Ottomans defined the empire as a secular state whose people were loyal to the dynasty that ruled it, rather than a primarily Muslim state based
on religious principles. In the middle decades of the nineteenth century, this group argued that the empire needed to embrace Western technical and scientific knowledge, while rejecting its materialism. In pursuit of these goals, the group argued that it was possible to find in Islam itself the basis for freedom, progress, rationality, and patriotism. empire as neither a dynastic state nor a pan-Islamic empire, but rather as a Turkish national state. • Its cumulative effect was
revolutionary because it included an attack on the power and privileges of both the daimyo and the samurai and their replacement with governors responsible to the central government. These societies faced the
immense Recommended textbook solutionsWhat empires in the 19th century resisted revolutionary change?Ottoman Empire - Resistance to change | Britannica.
What was happening to the Ottoman Empire in the 19th century?The stagnation and reform of the Ottoman Empire (1683–1827) ended with the dismemberment of Ottoman Classical Army. The issue during the decline and modernization of the Ottoman Empire (1828–1908) was to create a military (a security apparatus) that could win wars and bring security to its subjects.
What empire declined in the late 19th century?The Ottoman Empire had long been in decline by the 19th century and became a source of conflict between England and Russia.
What reforms did the Ottoman Empire make in the late 19th century?The reforms included the development of a new secular school system, the reorganization of the army based on the Prussian conscript system, the creation of provincial representative assemblies, and the introduction of new codes of commercial and criminal law, which were largely modeled after those of France.
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