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Bandits and Bureaucrats
Karen Barkey
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Description for Bandits and Bureaucrats
Paperback. Series: The Wilder House Series in Politics, History & Culture. Num Pages: 304 pages, 2. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJF; HBJK; JPHC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 464.
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, more as rogue clients than as primitive rebels. The state's ability to control and manipulate bandits-through deals, bargains and patronage-suggests imperial strength rather than weakness, she maintains. Bandits and Bureaucrats details, in a rich, archivally ... Read more
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, more as rogue clients than as primitive rebels. The state's ability to control and manipulate bandits-through deals, bargains and patronage-suggests imperial strength rather than weakness, she maintains. Bandits and Bureaucrats details, in a rich, archivally ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Series
The Wilder House Series in Politics, History & Culture
Condition
New
Weight
464g
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801484193
SKU
V9780801484193
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About Karen Barkey
Karen Barkey is Associate Professor of Sociology at Columbia University.
Reviews for Bandits and Bureaucrats
This book is interesting because it offers a glimpse as to how the ruling class, Janissary Corps, peasants, ulama (religious body) and judges related to one another.... Middle-East FAOs will nonetheless find this an interesting read, and devoting time to the study of the Ottoman system is always important in gaining a truer insight into the religion.
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