{"product_id":"bandits-and-bureaucrats-the-ottoman-route-to-state-centralization-the-wilder-house-series-in-politics-history-and-culture-9780801484193","title":"Bandits and Bureaucrats: The Ottoman Route to State Centralization (The Wilder House Series in Politics  History and Culture)","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhy 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 states ability to control and manipulate banditsthrough deals  bargains and patronagesuggests imperial strength rather than weakness  she maintains. Bandits and Bureaucrats details  in a rich  archivally based analysis  state-society relations in the Ottoman empire during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Exploring current eurocentric theories of state building  the author illuminates a period often mischaracterized as one in which the state declined in power. Outlining the processes of imperial rule  Barkey relates the state political and military institutions to their socal foundations. She compares the Ottoman route with state centralization in the Chinese and Russian empires  and contrasts experiences of rebellion in France during the same period. Bandits and Bureaucrats thus develops a theoretical interpretation of imperial state centralization through incorporation and bargaining with social groups  and at the same time enriches our understanding of the dynamics of Ottoman history.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67636787347509,"sku":"ByrdShop_0801484197","price":33.27,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780801484193.jpg?v=1791555825","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/bandits-and-bureaucrats-the-ottoman-route-to-state-centralization-the-wilder-house-series-in-politics-history-and-culture-9780801484193","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}