Bandits and Bureaucrats: The Ottoman Route to State Centralization

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Bandits and Bureaucrats: The Ottoman Route to State Centralization

Bandits and Bureaucrats: The Ottoman Route to State Centralization

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Bandits and Bureaucrats: The Ottoman Route to State Centralization

Why did the main challenge to the Ottoman state come not in peasant or elite rebellions but in endemic banditry? Karen Barkey shows how Turkish strategies of incorporating peasants and rotating elites kept both groups dependent on the state unable and unwilling to rebel. Bandits formerly mercenary soldiers were not interested in rebellion...
  • Brand: Cornell University Press
  • Category: History
  • Format: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Publication Date: 2023-10-03
  • Publisher / Label: Cornell University Press
  • Author: Karen Barkey
  • Number of Pages: 304
  • Fruugo ID: 431397845-906087621
  • ISBN: 9780801484193

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