Ottoman rural societies and economies : Halcyon Days in Crete VIII : a symposium held in Rethymno 13-15 January 2012 / edited by Elias Kolovos.

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Halcyon Days in Crete (8th : 2012 : Rethymnon, Greece) [Browse]
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  • English
  • French
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Rethymno : Crete University Press, [2015]
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xxiii, 459 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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    • "For 20 years now peasants have been almost completely absent from Ottomanist historiography. Since 1996 almost no major monograph has been devoted to Ottoman peasant history. This is in sharp contrast with the importance given to the study of Ottoman rural society and economy by earlier Ottomanist historiography. In his classic History of the Ottoman Empire, published in 1973, the doyen of Ottoman studies, Halil Inalcik, described the Ottoman Empire as a "peasant empire". However, for the Ottomanist historiography of the beginning of the twenty-first century, it looks as though the Ottoman Empire was rather an "empire of difference."
    • This volume follows an initiative aimed at putting the peasants back on the agenda of Ottoman history. However, we do not seek (how could we?) to reinstate the historiographical status quo ante nor to attack the many achievements of contemporary historiography. Moreover, unlike the earlier approach of some "classic" works on this subject, which focused on the state as a central actor in rural societies, our symposium sought to investigate economic and social relations in the countryside of the Ottoman Empire not only from the viewpoint of the central administration, but also from that of rural societies. In the present volume, our aim is to highlight themes that are still today unexplored or deserve revision, and throw light on the diverse trajectories of rural economies and societies in the long history and vast lands of the Ottoman Empire."-- Back cover.
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    At head of title: Foundation for Research & Technology--Hellas, Institute for Mediterranean Studies.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references.
    Language note
    In English; one article in French.
    Contents
    • Acknowledgements, p.ix
    • Abbreviations
    • Note on Transliteration, p.xi
    • Introduction: Bringing the Peasants Baek In?, p.xiii
    • Between Theory and Praxis: the Notion of 'Mine' and the Ottornan State, p.1 / John Chr. Alexander
    • MICRO-HlSTORIES OF OTTOMAN RURAL SOClETIES AND ECONOMIES
    • A Study of Rural Confliets: Gegbuzc/Gebzc (Distriet of Üsküdar) in the Mid-1700s, p.9 / Suraiya Faroqhi
    • Colleetive Identity, Colleetive Action, and ViIIage Autonorny: Cornerstones of Rural Life in the Seventeenth-Century Ottornan Ernpire, p.35 / Rhoads Murphey
    • A Ukrainian ViIIage in Podolia under Ottornan Rule: Changes in Social Strueture and Peasant Strategies, p.49 / Darius Kolodziejcyk
    • Agrarian Surplus and Agrarian Strategies in the ViIIage Miero-Eeonorny in the South- West Peloponnese in the Early Eighteenth Century, p.65 / Stefka Parvea
    • The Question of Abandoned Villages in Ottornan Anatolia (Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries), p.95 / Oktay Özel
    • Conversion to Islam in Ottornan Rural Soeieties in the Balkans: The Cases of Valiahades and Pomaks, p.131 / Phokion P. Kotzageorgis
    • MONASTERIES IN RURAL SOCIETIES
    • Monasteries in the Rural Soeiety and Eeonorny of the Greek Lands under the Ottornans: A Historiographieal Appraisal, p.165 / Elias Kolovos
    • Le monastere de Saint-Jean a Patmos et son environnernent rural, p.173 / Nicolas Vatin and Elizabeth A. Zachariadou
    • Monastie Fields on the Island of Patmos, p.195 / Michael Ursinus
    • LA DHOLDING AND COMMERCIALlSATION IN THE RURAL ECONOMY
    • Investissements des 'askar dans les campagnes egyptiennes, v. 1580-v.1630, p.211 / Nicolas Michel
    • The Rural Hinterland of Karaferye: Setılemenıs, Divisions and the Çiftlik Phenomenon (Seventeenth-Eighteenth Centuries), p.261 / Antonis Anastasopoulos and Aleni Gara
    • Agricultural Loans and European Merchants in Eighteenth-Century Cyprus: The Credit Network of Ragusan Consul Giovanni Garmogliesi, p.293 / Theoharis Stavrides
    • THE 'GREAT TRANSFORMATIAN' OF ATTOMAN AGRARIAN RELATlONS IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
    • The Ottornan Agrarian Question and the Making of Property and Crime in the Nineteenth Century, p.309 / Yücel Terzibaşoğlu
    • On the Çiftlik Regulation in Tırhala in the Mid Nineteenth Century: Economists, Pashas, Govemors, Çiftlik-I-Iolders, Subaşıs, and Sharecroppers, p.333 / Alp Yücel Kaya
    • Modemisation in the Onoman Empire: The 1858 Land Code and Property Regimes from a Regional Perspective, p.381 / Meltem Toksöz
    • CHALLENGES FOR THE FUTURE: ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY AND THE DIGITAL HUMANITIES
    • Engineering the Ottornan Empire: Irrigation and the Persistence of Early Modem Expertise, p.399 / Alan Mikhail
    • Rural Economies and Digital Humanities: Prospects and Challenges, p.415 / Antonis Hadjikyriacou and Elias Kolovos
    • Land Tenure and Land Settlement in Vostizza from Onoman to Venetian Rule: G.I.S. Mapping of the Venetian Cadasıro of 1700, p.423 / Socrates D. Petmezas.
    ISBN
    • 9789605244552 ((paperback))
    • 9605244551 ((paperback))
    LCCN
    2016456457
    OCLC
    946586477
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