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Bandits and Bureaucrats: The Ottoman Route to State Centralization (The Wilder House Series in Politics, History and Culture)

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 | #1576930 in Books |  Cornell University Press |  1996-12-12 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.94 x.73 x5.96l,1.06 | File type: PDF | 304 pages

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||8 of 9 people found the following review helpful.| Robin Hood Cuts a Deal with Sultan, Takes Office|By Bob Newman|OK, I'm going to start out by stating that I didn't like this book very much. However, I will immediately follow that by saying that it's obviously well-researched, the author covers a lot of ground methodically, and you'd have to be pretty obtuse not to follow her line of argument---it's repeated a LOT of times.| |"Karen Barkey, steeped in the intricacies of Ottoman linguistics as well as . . . new techniques of social theorization, brings her special talents to a perennial debate among early modernists who study the Middle East―how to explain the decline of the Ottom

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 but concentrated on trying to gain state resources, more as rogue clients than as primitive rebels. The state's ability to control...

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