The emergence of public opinion : state and society in the late Ottoman empire / Murat R. Şiviloğlu, Trinity College, Dublin.

By: Şiviloğlu, Murat R [author.]Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2020Copyright date: ©2018Edition: First paperback edition 2020Description: xii, 319 pages : photographs ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781316641392 (paperback)Subject(s): Public opinion -- Turkey | Intellectual life | Manners and customs | Politics and government | Turkey -- History -- Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918 | Turkey -- Intellectual life -- 19th centuryLOC classification: DR568 .S58 2020
Contents:
1 Historical background.
2 A bureaucratic public sphere.
3 The world of İsmail Ferruh Efendi.
4 The schooling of the public.
5 The emergence of a reading public after c. 1860.
6 "The Turkish revolution".
Subject: Nineteenth-century Ottoman politics was filled with casual references to public opinion. Having been popularised as a term in the 1860s, the following decades witnessed a deluge of issues being brought into 'the tribune of public opinion'. Murat R. Siviloglu explains how this concept emerged, and how such an abstract phenomenon embedded itself so deeply into the political discourse that even sultans had to consider its power. Through looking at the bureaucratic and educational institutions of the time, this book offers an analysis of the society and culture of the Ottomans, as well as providing an interesting application of theoretical ideas concerning common political identity and public opinion. The result is a more balanced and nuanced understanding of public opinion as a whole.
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"Canım annem Nesrin Deniz Acar'ın aziz hatırasına."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-312) and index (pages 313-319).

1 Historical background.

2 A bureaucratic public sphere.

3 The world of İsmail Ferruh Efendi.

4 The schooling of the public.

5 The emergence of a reading public after c. 1860.

6 "The Turkish revolution".

Nineteenth-century Ottoman politics was filled with casual references to public opinion. Having been popularised as a term in the 1860s, the following decades witnessed a deluge of issues being brought into 'the tribune of public opinion'. Murat R. Siviloglu explains how this concept emerged, and how such an abstract phenomenon embedded itself so deeply into the political discourse that even sultans had to consider its power. Through looking at the bureaucratic and educational institutions of the time, this book offers an analysis of the society and culture of the Ottomans, as well as providing an interesting application of theoretical ideas concerning common political identity and public opinion. The result is a more balanced and nuanced understanding of public opinion as a whole.