Tezcan, Baki <br/><br/>
The second Ottoman Empire :  political and social transformation in the early modern world / 
Baki Tezcan 
 - New York :  Cambridge University Press,  2010 
 - xviii, 284 p. :  ill., maps ;  24 cm. 
 - Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index 
<br/><br/>Introduction: Ottoman political history in the early modern period -- One market, one money, one law : the making of an imperial market society and a law that applies to all -- The question of succession : bringing the dynasty under legal supervision -- The court strikes back : the making of Ottoman absolutism -- A new empire for a second Osman : Osman II in power (1618-1622) -- The absolutist dispensation overturned : a regicide -- The second empire goes public : the age of the Janissaries -- Conclusion: Early modernity and the Ottoman decline 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780521519496 (hbk.) 9781107411449 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Janizaries--History<br/>Social change--History--Turkey--17th century<br/>Social change--History--Turkey--18th century<br/>Democratization--History--Turkey--17th century