http://www.mediafire.com/download/g...rnity+in+the+Hamidian+and+Young+Turk+Eras.pdf
(Credit to Nassirissimo for finding the article)
This is unsurprising of course. Hamidiyan regime was navigating the empire from the point of near destruction and was struggling to rebuild the empire's strength from scratch, while a non-western, non-christian nation was a rising power contemporarously, defeating the big bad that was responsible for their then condition. The interesting revelation for me was that the late empire's militarism also drew inspiration from Japanese model. It does help me in picturing how the empire will possibly develop had she avoided/survived WW1. It also explains something about the strains of rhetorics we get to hear throughout 20th century after the empire's dissolution, in addition to several other things.
More interesting however, is that how a lot of things in that article will be different had Ottomans won 1878. Ottoman Empire will have remained undisputably European-based, and will lead over a more credible Pan-Islamic movement, something that Japan will take note of and likely try to get benefit from.
Thoughts ?
(Credit to Nassirissimo for finding the article)
This is unsurprising of course. Hamidiyan regime was navigating the empire from the point of near destruction and was struggling to rebuild the empire's strength from scratch, while a non-western, non-christian nation was a rising power contemporarously, defeating the big bad that was responsible for their then condition. The interesting revelation for me was that the late empire's militarism also drew inspiration from Japanese model. It does help me in picturing how the empire will possibly develop had she avoided/survived WW1. It also explains something about the strains of rhetorics we get to hear throughout 20th century after the empire's dissolution, in addition to several other things.
More interesting however, is that how a lot of things in that article will be different had Ottomans won 1878. Ottoman Empire will have remained undisputably European-based, and will lead over a more credible Pan-Islamic movement, something that Japan will take note of and likely try to get benefit from.
Thoughts ?