Book contents
- Capitalism, Jacobinism and International Relations
- Lse International Studies
- Capitalism, Jacobinism and International Relations
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Modernity, Historicity and Transdisciplinarity
- 3 Capitalism, Absolutism, Jacobinism
- 4 Disputing Ottoman Modernity (1839–1918)
- 5 Kemalism as the Ultimate Turkish Substitution for Capitalism (1923–1945)
- 6 Reinterpreting Capitalist Modernity à la Turca
- 7 Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
4 - Disputing Ottoman Modernity (1839–1918)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 June 2022
- Capitalism, Jacobinism and International Relations
- Lse International Studies
- Capitalism, Jacobinism and International Relations
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Modernity, Historicity and Transdisciplinarity
- 3 Capitalism, Absolutism, Jacobinism
- 4 Disputing Ottoman Modernity (1839–1918)
- 5 Kemalism as the Ultimate Turkish Substitution for Capitalism (1923–1945)
- 6 Reinterpreting Capitalist Modernity à la Turca
- 7 Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Having documented the uneven and combined developmental trajectories of Britain and France, in this chapter I will begin to explore the significance of Jacobinism for our understanding of the rise of multiple modernities outside Western Europe. To this end, I seek to identify the precise nature and concrete outcome of the "combined" character of Ottoman modernization. It shows that the late Ottoman Empire can neither be understood as a "patrimonial state" nor can it be conceptualized as a "peripheral capitalism." Instead, the end result of the Ottoman experiment with modernity was a historically specific Jacobinism that combined and bypassed capitalism (and socialism) based on an alternative form of property and sociality.
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- Capitalism, Jacobinism and International RelationsRevisiting Turkish Modernity, pp. 99 - 159Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022