La fine dell'Impero ottomano

In 1923 the Ottoman Empire ceased to exist. In the past, this event was explained above all by the inability of the Ottoman world to modernize, ending to be overwhelmed by nationalisms destined to affirm themselves with the First World War. Such a paradigm, however, is not enough to explain many dynamics that affected the Balkan-Middle Eastern area between the 19th and 20th centuries. This volume marks a synthesis of the final decades of the Ottoman Empire, from the Balkan crisis of 1878 to its dissolution, incorporating these events in the context of the growing globalization process of the world. In the perspective of world history, we can better understand the reform efforts of imperial structures and the secessionist movements of national movements, the Islamic reaction to the state crisis and the advent of the young-Turkish movement, the violent crisis of Islamic coexistence Christianity and the birth of a recognized Turkish state-nation at international level, but also weakened by the end of its internal pluralism. It gives an articulate picture of the Ottoman complex "modernity", the origin of the imperial sunset, but also the root of numerous issues with which Turkey continues to be measured.