Factorii determinanți ai reformelor fanariote în istoriografia română
The Determination factors of the Phanariot Reforms in Romanian Historiography

Summary/Abstract: This study explores the issue of the factors which prompted the adoption of the Phanariot reforms in the Romanian historiography. Analyzing the problem from a historiographical point of view, a distinction of the factors advanced for the explanation of the reforms is made: structural socio-economic (the fiscal and demographic crisis), cultural (in influence of the Enlightenment) and geopolitical (the influence of the Habsburg administrative practices in Oltenia and Transylvania). In order to clarify the role played by these factors, the arguments expressed in the Romanian historiography with regard to this issue are reviewed and an assessment of each explanation is proposed, highlighting the strengths and weaknesses of each. The explanations advanced until now correspond to different analytical levels: the social and economic factors are the deep forces which determine the reforms, the cultural factors pertain to the biography of some Phanariot princes, whereas the geopolitical factors represen the geopolitical circumstance. The study supports a multifactorial explanation of the reforms andit suggests that the Habsburg administrative model played a more important role than historians had acknowledged and suggests a hypothesis for future research of this issue.

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