From Military Downfall to Rejuvenation: The Balkan Wars and the Vision of the Ottoman Nationâs Rebirth

Eyal Ginio

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From Military Downfall to Rejuvenation: The Balkan Wars and the Vision of the Ottoman Nationâs Rebirth

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DOI:: https://doi.org/10.30965/9783657760022_011

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This chapter deals with the concepts of progress and modernization as discussed in the Ottoman writing on their military defeat during the Balkan wars (1912â13). By exploring various texts authored by leading Ottoman literati in the aftermath of the defeat, the chapter aims to analyse their interpretation of these concepts and the impact of the Balkan wars on their understanding of the meaning and role of modernization. It argues that those authors continued to perceive progress and modernization as major targets towards which the Ottoman nation should invest all its skills and efforts if it desired to safeguard its future. Yet, disappointed with European attitudes towards the Ottoman defeat and the terrible suffering of Muslim civilians, many of them imagined an Ottoman modernization from which Europe would be excluded. In its place, those Ottoman authors argued that Japan, as a non-European power that had successfully coped with the European threats to its sovereignty, should turn into the main model for the modernization of the Ottoman Empire.

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Transforming Southeast Europe During the Long 19th Century

Persons and Personalities as Agents of Modernization in the Ottoman and Post-Ottoman Space

Series:Â Balkan Studies Library, Volume: 35

Cover Transforming Southeast Europe During the Long 19th Century

E-Book ISBN:: 9783657760022

Publisher:: Brill | SchÃ¶ningh

Print Publication Date:: 06 Jun 2024

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- Slavic and Eurasian Studies
  - History

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Part I Introduction

Part II Foreign Agents of Institutional Modernization in the Ottoman and the Post-Ottoman Urban Centres

Part III Agents of Social and Cultural Modernization: Tradition, Modernity, and Nation-Building in Imperial and Post-Imperial Context

Part IV Agents of Economic and Technological Modernization in the Ottoman Periphery

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