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Empire of Difference
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Artikel-Nr:
9780521887403
Veröffentl:
2008
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Erscheinungsdatum:
18.09.2008
Seiten:
360
Autor:
Karen Barkey
Gewicht:
707 g
Format:
240x161x24 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
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.
This book is a comparative study of imperial organization and longevity in the Ottoman Empire.
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.