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Bandits and Bureaucrats
Political Patronage
Turkey, history, ottoman empire, 1288-1918
Bureaucratie
Brigands and robbers
Peasantry
Bureaucracy
Peasants
Outlaws
History
"Why 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 mercena…
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