Bandits and Bureaucrats : The Ottoman Route to State Centralization

by Barkey, Karen

• ISBN13: 9780801484193
• ISBN10: 0801484197
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-02-01
• Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Chapter 1 Introduction	1	(23)
Chapter 2 The Context of the Seventeenth Century	24	(31)
The Legacy of the Classical Age	25	(19)
The Ottoman Empire in Context	44	(4)
The Crisis of the Seventeenth Century	48	(7)
Chapter 3 Ottoman Regional Elites: Divided but Loyal	55	(30)
The State and Timar Holders	60	(16)
The State and High-Ranking Provincial Officials	76	(9)
Chapter 4 Ottoman Peasants: Rational or Indifferent?	85	(56)
Patron-Client Relations: Fictitious Landholders?	91	(16)
Peasant Rural Organization	107	(34)
Chapter 5 Celalis: Bandits without a Cause?	141	(48)
Peasant Alternatives	143	(9)
The Manufacturing of Banditry	152	(24)
Banditry as a Social Type	176	(13)
Chapter 6 State-Bandit Relations: A Blueprint for State Centralization	189	(40)
A Political Invitation: May 1606	189	(6)
Consolidation through Deal Making with Bandits	195	(8)
Bargains and Force, 1590-1611	203	(17)
The Politicized Rhetoric of Bargaining, 1623-1648	220	(9)
Chapter 7 Conclusion	229	(14)
Appendix 1 The Study Area	243	(7)
Appendix 2 Primary Sources from the Ottoman Archives	250	(5)
Bibliography	255	(20)
Index	275