Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

1. Empire, State, and People

2. A Movable Empire

3. Toward Settlement

4. Building Stasis

5. The Immovable State

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Promotional Information

Examines the history of the Ottoman Empire by focusing on the migrant groups that lived within its bounds and their changing relationship to the state's central authorities

About the Author

Resat Kasaba is Henry M. Jackson Professor of international studies at the University of Washington. His previous books include The Ottoman Empire and the World Economy and Rethinking Modernity and National Identity in Turkey.

Reviews

"This book is a rare example of a thematic survey of seminal processes throughout the entire course of the Ottoman empire, with 'mobility' as the focus of the investigation. Just as impressive as the chronological breadth and scholarly depth of his research is Kasaba's adroitness in connecting the dots with the eye of a historically informed social scientist." -Hasan Kayali, University of California, San Diego "This case study covers the six-hundred-year span of the Ottoman Empire. It is a measured challenge to epistemological stereotypes about the Middle East and an accessible explanation for the longevity of the Ottomans. There is nothing to compete with it." -Virginia H. Aksan, professor, McMaster University