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<P>O. Bouquet, Les Pachas du Sultan. Essai sur les agents supérieurs de l'État
ottoman (1839-1909), </P>
<P>Leuven, Peeters, Collection Turcica, 12, 2007.</P>
<P>ISBN: 978-90-429-1892-4</P>
<P>Pages: XXXIV-587 p.</P>
<P>The book can be ordered from:</P>
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<P>Summary:</P>
<P>The Ottoman pashas were registered as high ranking civil and military
officials in the personnel records created during Abdülhamid II's rule
(1876-1909). The serial examination of a sample of nearly three hundred
biographies attempts to establish a prosopography along three tracks: first, an
analysis of the main features of the pashas delineating more or less a status
group; second, a study of ottoman socialization addressing individuals as
created by a social, educational and linguistic environment; third, a
reconstruction of successive stages of their lives, through administrative
procedures and career patterns. It emerges from the investigation that the
pashas contributed both to preserving the ethic of the Ottoman institutions as
the Sultan's servants and to reform as imperial administrators.</P>
<P>Best Regards,</P>
<P>Olivier Bouquet</P>
<P>Assistant Professor</P>
<P>Nice University</P>
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