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At the Voyvoda Street Economic History Lectures:
The Sick Man of Europe
Prof. Huricihan İslamoğlu, from the Department of History, at Boğaziçi University, will be joining us at the Voyvoda Street Economic History Lectures this May, to discuss "Private Property and Law in the Modern Ottoman State". At the lecture scheduled for Wednesday, May 5, at 6:30 p.m., İslamoğlu will also address the issue of the so-called Sick Man of Europe, explaining that 19th century Ottoman history, though frequently considered an account of the declining Ottoman state's efforts to secure the appreciation of the West, is more accurately understood as the history of modernization in the region.
"The appearance of property rights on land, as the major institution of market economy during the 19th century, is a fact that cannot be dissociated from the process of the formation of the modern state and from the reorganization undertaken by the state for financial purposes," says Prof. İslamoğlu. "For this reason, 19th century Ottoman history is better viewed as the history of a country experiencing growing pains than - as it has so often been suggested - an account of the Sick Man of Europe's attempts to win over the approval of the West. Moreover, it is a history the Ottoman state has in common, with other countries, at different times, all around the world..."
For further information on this free lecture offered by the Ottoman Bank Museum, please contact: (212) 292 76 05
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