Empire of Difference

This book is a comparative study of imperial organization and longevity in the Ottoman Empire.

Informationen zum Autor Karen Barkey is currently a Professor of Sociology and History at Columbia University. She is the author of Bandits and Bureaucrats: The Ottoman Route to State Centralization! winner of the Social Science History Award in 1995 and co-editor of After Empire: Multiethnic Societies and Nation-Building: The Soviet Union! and the Russian! Habsburg and Ottoman Empires with Mark von Hagen. She has been awarded fellowships from the United States Institute of Peace! Social Science Research Council - MacArthur and National Humanities Center. Klappentext This book is a comparative study of imperial organization and longevity in the Ottoman Empire. Zusammenfassung A comparative study of imperial organization and longevity in the Ottoman Empire. Barkey's research demonstrates that the flexible techniques by which the Ottomans maintained their legitimacy! the cooperation of their diverse elites! and their control over economic and human resources were responsible for the longevity of this 'negotiated empire'.

Klappentext
This book is a comparative study of imperial organization and longevity in the Ottoman Empire.

Inhalt
Part I: 1. Introduction; 2. Emergence: brokerage across networks; 3. Becoming an empire: imperial institutions and control; 4. Maintaining empire: an expression of tolerance; 5. The social organization of dissent; Part II. The Transformation of the Eighteenth Century: 6. An eventful eighteenth century: empowering the political; 7. A networking society: commercialization, tax-farming, and social relations; 8. On the road out of empire: Ottomans struggle from empire to nation-state.

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