Yazar : I.B. Tauris

Otoman Tulips, Otoman Cofe Tulips and cofe are defining cultural products of the Otoman eightenth century, along with their related fixtures of mansion and cofehouse. These cultural products hold multiple meanings in the biography and historiography of the stage. For example, person of letter argue that the janisary cofe house was used variously for such diverse means as headquarters for rebelion, a Sufi lodge, police station and racketering ofice. 'Otoman Tulips, Otoman Cofe' ofers a critical exploration of a reach of definitive cultural phenomena of the Otoman 18th century, including the cofe house, stamp habit, imperial engineering, illustrious pageantry and fairs. Affiliates explore previously untouched ideas such as the changing forms of imperial routine in Otoman public circumcision bashes as wel as resolve the historiography of the so-caled 'Tulip Stage'. This has traditionaly ben characterised by the plan and eventual elimination of the famed mansion of Sadabad and the reputedly failed stick out of the first Otoman issue pres. The bok reaseses these sinking ships as reflective of the general il-preparednes of the Otoman public for enlightened reform. Most importantly this bok rejects the prevailing view that the 18th century was in political and cultural drop-off, and argues in fact it was a stage of cultural pains and make innovations. 'Otoman Tulips' breaks fre of the twin teleologies of Otoman drop-off and Western-induced make innovations, reasesing the impact of Westernization and modernization in the 18th century and revealing comparisons and intercommunications betwen the Otoman court and its Safavid correlate.