New Approaches to State and Peasant in Ottoman History

Download or read book New Approaches to State and Peasant in Ottoman History written by Halil Berktay and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-06 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Debates on the world historical place of the Ottoman Empire in the last few decades have been conducted mainly in Turkey, but increasingly concepts have been introduced into the conversation from the study of European, Chinese and Central Asian history. This book, first published in 1992, examines the nature of the Ottoman state from a variety of perspectives, economic, political and social.