Based on three years of archival research, this work adopts a comparative framework in its examination of one of the least understood and more paradoxical polities of modern European and Middle Eastern history: the Ottoman ancien regime. Despite a profoundly decentralized state …
This volume explores the transition from the old regime tomodern forms of sovereignty in the Middle East. By rereading Tocqueville's classic, "The Old Rigime and the French Revolution, through an Ottoman prism this study probes the unresolved paradoxes in his analysis of institu…
Based on archival research, this work examines the Ottoman ancien regime. The author argues that the success of the regime was due to the articulation of a complex financial network revolving around central state elite investments and an Istanbul-based and supervised banking sys…
Based on three years of archival research, this work adopts a comparative framework in its examination of one of the least understood and more paradoxical polities of modern European and Middle Eastern history: the Ottoman ancien regime. Despite a profoundly decentralized state …
