Bandits and Bureaucrats: The Ottoman Route to State Centralization - The Wilder House Series in Politics, History and Culture - Karen Barkey - Books - Cornell University Press - 9780801429446 - August 4, 1994
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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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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...

304 pages, 2 maps

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released August 4, 1994
ISBN13 9780801429446
Publishers Cornell University Press
Pages 304
Dimensions 152 × 229 × 27 mm   ·   607 g

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