Philliou, Christine May <br/><br/>
Biography of an empire :  governing Ottomans in an age of revolution / 
Christine M. Philliou. 
 - Berkeley :  University of California Press,  2011. 
 - xxx, 286 p. :  ill. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> "This vividly detailed revisionist history opens a new vista on the great Ottoman Empire in the early nineteenth century. Christine Philliou sheds light on imperial crisis and change in the 1820s and 1830s by unearthing the life of one man: Stephanos Vogorides (1780-1859). Vogorides was part of a network of Christian elites known as phanariots institutionally excluded from power yet intimately bound up with Ottoman governance. By tracing the contours of the wide-ranging networks - crossing ethnic, religious, and institutional boundaries - in which the phanariots moved, Philliou provides a unique view of Ottoman power and, ultimately, of the Ottoman legacies in the Middle East and Balkans today. What emerges is a wide-angled analysis of governance as a lived experience at a moment in which there was no clear blueprint for power."--Provided from the publisher. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780520266339  9780520266353  
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Vogorides, Stephanos 1780-1859 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Phanariots--History--Turkey--19th century
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Turkey--History--Tanzimat, 1839-1876
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>956.015