Forum Imperator (Companions to novels series Book 1)

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Mith , Jul 1, The Imperator , Jul 1, Mith , Jul 2, What is this "few races" you keep mentioning? There are characters that move back and forth from the Whoverse and Faction Paradox series. Multiple companions appear in both series. Sutekh, Cousin Justine, Iris Wildthyme, etc all appear in both series. Yes, Miles may consider it separate, but the authors that write for love moving their characters from one setting to the other, and generally act as if they are connected. Again, it's a very area, and be argued either way. The Imperator , Jul 2, Early Ottoman History Kafadar, Cemal. The Construction of the Ottoman State.

University of California Press, The Nature of the Early Ottoman State. See my post above. Since the beginning of the Kafadar-Lowry debate, a third contribution has appeared as well: Explorations in Ottoman Prehistory. University of Michigan Press, , but I have yet to read it.

The Sons of Bayezid: Koninklijke Brill NV, Monographs on particular segments of the political narrative of Ottoman politics are extremely rare in our field, but when they do appear they are of immense significance. Kastritsis closely examines the Ottoman 'Interregnum' of ; the civil war following the victory of Timur over Bayezid I at Ankara. It is an excellent study with impressive source analysis and enlightens us a great deal on the nature of early Ottoman politics and political legitimacy. This article observes the existence of a pattern in early Ottoman expansion in the Balkans, in which the Ottomans first forced local lords into vassal relationships before incorporating their lands more directly into the state.

Thus older works are, generally speaking, still viable on this topic. The Classical Age, Norman Itzkowitz and Colin Imber.

Weidenfeld and Nicolson, This work is divided into several sections, first a narrative of the Ottoman rise to power, followed by an account of the empire's institutions - the provincial and central government, the palace, and so forth. While his analysis of the structure of Ottoman institutions remains fairly accurate, his account of everything else should be treated with extreme caution, particularly the narrative segment of his history.

There has been revision in some areas, however. The Ottoman Age of Exploration. Oxford University Press, This is a highly innovative work shedding light on an oft-ignored aspect of history, namely Ottoman activity in the Indian Ocean region.

Casale argues that the Ottomans proactively intervened in the Indian Ocean during the sixteenth century to combat the Portuguese incursion, and sheds light on this previously unexplored realm of Ottoman imperial expansion. Other works containing essays on a variety of sixteenth century topics include: Aksan, Virginia and Daniel Goffman eds. The Early Modern Ottomans: This is the founding article of the study of Ottoman transformation in the seventeenth century.

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It described, for the first time, the mechanisms behind the breakdown of the timar system and its replacement with tax farming, and the organization of the new army of irregular infantrymen which was subsequently produced, as well as the significant impact this had on state-society relations in the provinces. But the main thrust of the article still stands strong 35 years later and is worth reading. You'll see them cited absolutely everywhere. The Transformation of Ottoman Provincial Government, Columbia University Press, This is one of the most important monographs on Ottoman history ever written.

This study is another must-read for the seventeenth century. The Rebellion and the Structure of Ottoman Politics. Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten, Along the lines of Metin Kunt's book above, these works have done a great deal to revolutionize our understanding of Ottoman political and elite culture in this period. The formation of elite households on the model of the imperial household in Istanbul is now taken as the most fundamentally important development of seventeenth century politics.

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Linda Darling's study of the Ottoman bureaucracy is written in quite technical language and may be hard for people who are not already well versed in Ottoman history to understand. Yet it is of incredible importance because it demonstrated clearly that the bureaucratic apparatus of the empire functioned well and was able to successfully adapt to the challenges of the seventeenth century. She breaks down the stereotypes of a stagnant and declining bureaucracy, as well as arguing against the idea that the expansion of tax farming in the empire led to widespread oppression.

Women and Sovereignty in the Ottoman Empire.

This monograph is an extremely insightful study of the imperial harem. She places the role of the female members of the Ottoman dynasty within its proper context by determining the mechanisms by which they wielded political power. The Second Ottoman Empire: Baki Tezcan's book is also worth mentioning even though his thesis has not been generally accepted by the rest of the academic community. Tezcan views the economic and social transformation of the empire as setting the stage for for a struggle between two different political ideologies, one favoring limited monarchy the "constitutionalists" and one favoring sultanic absolutism.

Even if not totally accepted, his argument is regarded as being a highly valuable contribution to the field and well worth looking into. A modern summary of the history of the Arab provinces excluding the Maghreb under the Ottomans.

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University of Chicago Press, While not a provincial history per se, this study examines the role of the Maghreb in the struggle between the Spanish and Ottomans in the sixteenth century, challenging Braudel's interpretation of the Mediterranean as a unified space and arguing that the region became increasingly divided along religious lines due to the imperial struggle. The title is a reference to the empires and not to historians; as imperial warfare came to an end, both the Spanish and Ottomans ceased to concern themselves with the Maghreb, and let it develop on its own course.

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