Bandits and Bureaucrats: The Ottoman Route to State Centralization
1996
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Livre de Karen Barkey · 1996
Genre : HistoireBandits and Bureaucrats 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, mor... Full description
