November 16, 1999

1. Definitions (P. 366)
   1. Elites
   2. Cities
   3. Map Of Ottoman Constantinople (P. 377)
      
      
2. Ottomans: A Civilization Created By Its Dynasty And Its Patrimonial Bureaucracy, Lasts 600 Yrs.
   Replaced By Nationalist Revitalization Movement
   
   
3. Bureaucracy And Dynasty: The Ottomans As Both
   1. Introduction: see definitions, p.388
      1. Bureaucracy
      2. Dynasty
      3. Dynastic Cycle
      4. Legal-Rational Bureaucracy
   2. Time Scales
      1. 1). Dynastic Cycles
      2. 2). Ottoman Chronology: Does The Cycle Fit?
         1. 1250-1300 AD: Startup.
         2. 1326: Bursa is taken as the capital of Osman, the founder, just before his death.
         3. 1360s Murad I establishes Janissary and Gate Slave System with palace schools.
         4. 1456: Mehmet the Conqueror takes Constantinople.
         5. 1623-40: Murad IV abolishes the gate slave system and admits free Muslims into the army and bureaucracy.
         6. 1826: Mahmud II, the Reformer, abolishes the Janissaries, and the former slave schools, to establish civil service and military academies on the French model. See that his mother Valide Sultan Naksidil, was a French Creole, and note the French influence then upon the empire (see footnote, p. 393).
         7. 1922: Mehmet VI loses his throne, and the dynasty is abolished.
   3. Space Scales, Cities and Empires
   4. Elites and Masses, Mutual Relations of.
   5. Conclusions: Did the Ottomans escape the dynastic cycle?
      Answer: they lasted 600 years, more than most, but ultimately the dynasty fell, and the multinational empire gave way to a uni-ethnic nation-state
      

Nov. 18, 1999

Film: The Japanese Version. (Copies are on reserve in Leavey Library.)