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Acknowledgements.The Idea of a ‘Tulip Age’: A Paradigm and Its Meaning s.
The Preamble to the ‘Tulip Age’:
The Perception of Ahmed III and Damad İbrahim.
The Construction of the ‘Tulip Age’: Ahmed Reok and his Lâle Devri.
Calibrating the Idea of a ‘Tulip Age’.
Ahmed Reok’s Publications in the Period.
The Establishment of the Turkish Republic and the juest for a New Historiography.
The Subterranean Survival of the "Tulip Age".
The ‘Tulip Age’ as a Prelude to the Tanzimat: The Re-Appreciation of the Ottomans and Islam.
Epilogue.
The Politics of History.Notes.