The collapse of rural order in Ottoman Anatolia : Amasya, 1576-1643
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The collapse of rural order in Ottoman Anatolia : Amasya, 1576-1643
（The Ottoman Empire and its heritages : politics, society and economy, v. 61）
Brill, c2016
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-271) and index
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Description
Did the 'seventeenth-century crisis' visit the Ottoman Empire? How can we situate the explosion of rural violence and the rebellions of the turn of the seventeenth century in the Anatolian countryside? The Collapse of Rural Order in Ottoman Anatolia provides the reader with a fresh and innovative perspective on the long scholarly debate over the question of 'decline' in early modern Ottoman history. It offers a new agenda, new type of source material, and a new methodology for the study of demographic crisis.
Through a systematic examination of little-known detailed avariz registers, Oktay OEzel demonstrates in detail the mass desertion of rural settlements, the destruction of agricultural economy, and the resulting collapse of rural order in Ottoman Anatolia at the turn of the seventeenth century.
Table of Contents
List of Figures and Tables
Acknowledgments
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1 Introduction
The Subject
The Sources (mufassal (= Detailed) Avariz Registers)
On the "Decline" Literature
2 Geography and Politics
Amasya: Making of an Ottoman Province
Rural Society: Limitations and Relational Matrix
3 Land, Society and Empire (through 1576)
Peasants and Nomads
Notables (malikane holders)
Timariots
4 The Collapse of Rural Order: A Comparison (1576-1643)
Settlement Patterns
Population
Society
5 What Happened? An Assessment
The Context Reviewed
Nature and Climate at Work
The Celalis
The Consequences
1643 Recontextualised
6 Conclusion
Appendices
Bibliography
Index
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