The Collapse of Rural Order in Ottoman Anatolia : Amasya 1576-1643 / by Oktay Özel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Özel, Oktay, author.

Series:

Ottoman Empire and its heritage ; v. 61.

The Ottoman Empire and its heritage ; volume 61

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Amasya (Amasya İli, Turkey)--History.

Amasya (Amasya İli, Turkey).

Amasya İli (Turkey)--History.

Amasya İli (Turkey).

Turkey--History--Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918.

Turkey.

History.

Turkey--Amasya (Amasya İli).

Turkey--Amasya İli.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

x, 291 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016]

Summary:

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 avârz registers, Oktay Özel 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. Book jacket.

Contents:

1. Introduction

2. Geography and politics

3. Land, society, and empire (through 1576)

4. The collapse of rural order: a comparison (1576-1643)

5. What happened? an assessment

6. Conclusion

Appendix I: Tahrir? and avariz registers of Amasya

Appendix II: Revenue holders and revenue distribution

Appendix III: urban population in the province of Rum, 1520-1643

Appendix IV: Rural settlements with their tax-paying population (c. 1480-1643)

Bibliography

Index

Map of Amasya.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-271) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Özel, Oktay, author. Collapse of rural order in Ottoman Anatolia

ISBN:

9789004309715

9004309713

OCLC:

928782003