Bandits and Bureaucrats - The Ottoman Route to State Centralization

Riassunto

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...

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Karen Barkey
• Editore: Cornell University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 04.08.1994
• EAN: 9780801429446
• ISBN: 978-0-8014-2944-6
• Pagine: 304
• Dimensioni: 152 mm x 229 mm x 27 mm
• Peso: 907 g
• Serie: Reading Women Writing; The Wilder House Series in Politics, History and Culture; The Wilder House Politics, His
• Categorie: Saggistica > Storia > Altro; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Diritto > Diritto penale, diritto processuale penale, criminologia; Politikwissenschaft, Türkei, Europäische Geschichte, Geschichte allgemein und Weltgeschichte, Asiatische Geschichte