Description
Book SynopsisExamines the history of the Ottoman Empire by focusing on the migrant groups that lived within its bounds and their changing relationship to the state's central authorities.
Trade Review". . . a vital, easily accessible, teaching supplement to stress larger points we all try to make about the diversity of peoples that the Ottoman experience encompassed."
-- Isa Blumi * Insight Turkey *
"His take on 600 years of Ottoman dynamism challenges specialists to re-think epistemological paradigms, illustrates to the general scholar the necessity for new methodological tools, and remains accessible to the student interested in comparative Eurasian history."
* The Journal of Interdisciplinary History *
"International studies professor Kasaba offers an engaging history of nomads, tribes, and migrant groups that lived within the borders of the Ottoman Empire. He enthusiastically explores the relations of these various groups within the central state, positing that cooperation between these groups and the Ottoman state strengthened the empire even while allowing local leaders to hold autonomous authority."
* Choice *
"In this remarkable work of synthesis, Kasaba provides critical new insights into the relevance of the Ottoman past to the modern Middle East and makes a major contribution to the study of tribe and state relations across eight centuries."
* American Historical Review *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
1. Empire, State, and People
2. A Movable Empire
3. Toward Settlement
4. Building Stasis
5. The Immovable State
Notes
Bibliography
Index
