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This book is a comparative study of the Ottoman Empire and its successes and failures compared to other empires. It examines the empire's social organization and methods of rule throughout its history, including its emergence, institutionalization, and transition to a nation-state. The author highlights the empire's ability to adapt and avoid crises, thanks to its flexible techniques for maintaining legitimacy, cooperation among diverse elites, and control over resources. The book also explores topics such as imperial governance, institutions, diversity, dissent, and state-society negotiations.
This book is a comparative study of imperial organization and longevity that assesses Ottoman successes as well as failures against those of other empires with similar characteristics. Barkey examines the Ottoman Empire's social organization and mechanisms of rule at key moments of its history, emergence, imperial institutionalization, remodeling, and transition to nation-state, revealing how the empire managed these moments, adapted, and averted crises and what changes made it transform dramatically. The flexible techniques by which the Ottomans maintained their legitimacy, the cooperation of their diverse elites both at the center and in the provinces, as well as their control over economic and human resources were responsible for the longevity of this particular "negotiated empire." Her analysis illuminates topics that include imperial governance, imperial institutions, imperial diversity and multiculturalism, the manner in which dissent is handled and/or internalized, and the nature of state society negotiations.
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