
Название: Bandits and Bureaucrats: The Ottoman Route to State Centralization
Автор: Karen Barkey
Издательство: Cornell University Press
Год: 1996
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 282
Размер: 16.7 Мб
Язык: English
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.