The Collapse of Rural Order in Ottoman Anatolia

Amasya 1576-1643
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-90-04-30971-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Turkish, Ottoman, Band 61, 282 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 538 g

Reihe: The Ottoman Empire and its Heritage

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 avâriz registers, Oktay Özeldemonstrates 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Özel, Oktay

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Regional- & Stadtgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historische Demographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures and Tables
Acknowledgments
Notes on Spelling

1 Introduction
The Subject
The Sources (mufassal (= Detailed) Avâriz 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 (mâlikâne 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 Celâlis
The Consequences
1643 Recontextualised

6 Conclusion

Appendices
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Oktay Özel, Ph.D. (1993), University of Manchester, is Assistant Professor in Ottoman history at Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey. He has published many articles both in Turkish and English, authored Dün Sancisi (Tarih Vakfi, 2012) and Türkiye 1643: Gosa’nin Gözleri (Iletisim, 2013).