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| Preface | |
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| Transliterations | |
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| An Imperial Model | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Empire: An Analytic Framework | |
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| The Longevity of Empires: Critical Concepts and Issues | |
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| Emergence: Brokerage across Networks | |
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| A Frontier Society: Contradictions, Constraints, and Opportunities | |
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| Osman: The Construction of a Network (1290-1326) | |
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| The Internal Boundaries of the New State | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Appendix to Chapter 2 | |
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| Becoming an Empire: Imperial Institutions and Control | |
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| From Conquest to Imperial Domains | |
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| Establishing a Strong Center: Patrimonial Army and Peoples | |
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| Establishing Provincial Rule and Managing Frontiers | |
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| Establishing Control: A Segmented Society and a Flexible Economy | |
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| Legitimating a Normative Order | |
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| Conclusion: The Role of Islam | |
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| Maintaining Empire: An Expression of Tolerance | |
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| Ottoman Tolerance: Marking the Boundaries | |
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| The Devshirme | |
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| Conversion | |
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| The Surgun | |
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| A Capacious Administration of Difference | |
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| Institutional Genesis | |
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| Alternatives to Religious Community | |
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| The Absence of Intercommunal Violence | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Social Organization of Dissent | |
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| Persecuting the Past: Heterodoxy under Fire | |
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| Seyh Bedreddin | |
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| The Kizilbas (Redheads) | |
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| Celalis | |
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| Islamic Ultra Orthodoxy and Jewish Messianism: Dissent in the Seventeenth Century | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Transformation of the Eighteenth Century | |
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| An Eventful Eighteenth Century: Empowering the Political | |
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| A Short Historical Account of the Eighteenth Century | |
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| State Power and Social Forces: Three Episodes of Learning the Politics of Opposition | |
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| The Edirne Event: 1703 | |
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| The Patrona Halil Revolt: 1730 | |
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| The Sened-i Ittifak: 1808 | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| A Networking Society: Commercialization, Tax Farming, and Social Relations | |
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| Tax Farming and Commercialization | |
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| The Extension of Ottoman Tax Farming | |
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| The Brave New World of Trade | |
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| Reworking Elite Networks: Institutions, Actors, and Activities | |
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| Notables, State Positions, and Tax Farms | |
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| Notables and Trade | |
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| The Transitional Modernity of Notables | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| On the Road out of Empire: Ottomans Struggle from Empire to Nation-State | |
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| Toward State Centralization | |
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| Decentralization, Decline, or Restoration under Federalism: The Role of Tax Farming | |
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| Minorities at Risk: Toleration Unraveled and the Construction of "Bounded Identities" | |
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| Religion and Legitimacy | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |