Publications:
Books, Edited Volumes, and Monographs
Books,
Edited Volumes, and Monographs
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Empire of Difference: The Ottomans in Comparative Perspective Combining comparative history, network and organizational analysis, this book provides a more systematic assessment of the social organization of empire at its different moments; from emergence, social organization of diversity and of imperial maintenance, to the politics of dissent and decline. The Ottoman empire is the primary focus, illuminated by patterns of similarity and difference with the Habsburg, Roman, Byzantine, and Russian empires. Cambridge University Press 2008. |
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Bandits
and Bureaucrats: The Ottoman Route to State
Centralization, 1994, Cornell University Press.
Translated into Turkish, 1999. |
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After Empire: Multiethnic Societies and Nation-Building: The Soviet Union, and the Russian, Habsburg and Ottoman Empires, ed. with Mark von Hagen 1997, Westview Press. |
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Alternative Routes to State
Formation: A Relational Approach to Politics,
Culture and Society in Japan, China and Turkey,
with Eiko Ikegami and R. Bin Wong. In process. |
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Allan Sharlin Memorial Award for
outstanding book of the year in Social Science History
for Bandits
and Bureaucrats: The Ottoman Route to State
Centralization, 1995 Social
ScienceHistory Association. |
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Barrington Moore Award: best book in
the area of comparative/historical sociology for Empire
of Difference: Ottomans in Comparative Perspective,
2009 American Sociological Association. |
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J. David Greenstone Award for the best
book in politics and history for Empire
of Difference: Ottomans in Comparative Perspective,
2009 American Political Science Association. |
| “Aspects of Legal
Pluralism in the |
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| “Empire and Toleration: A Comparative
Sociology of Toleration within Empire,” in Boundaries
of Toleration, eds. Alfred Stepan and Charles
Taylor, |
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“States, Regimes and Decisions: Why Jews were Expelled from Medieval England and France,” (with Ira Katznelson) Theory and Society, Vol. 40 (2011). |
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“Rethinking Ottoman Management of Diversity: What Can We Learn for Modern Turkey?” in Democracy, Islam and Secularism in Turkey, eds. Ahmet Kuru and Alfred Stepan, Columbia University Press, 2010. |
“Comparisons Across Empires: The Critical Social Structures of the Ottomans, Russians and Habsburgs,” (with Rudi Batzell) in Empires in Contention: Sociology, History and Cultural Difference, eds. P.F. Bang and C.A. Bayly. Palgrave Press, 2010. |
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2009 “In the Lands of the Ottomans: Religion and Politics,” in Religion and the Political Imagination, eds. Ira Katznelson and Gareth Stedman Jones, Cambridge University Press, 2010. |
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“Analytic Historical Sociology,” pp. 712-734 in The Oxford Handbook of Analytic Sociology, eds. Peter Bearman and Peter Hedstrom, Oxford University Press, 2009. |
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2008 "Analytic Historical Sociology", in
The Oxford Handbook of Analytic Sociology, eds.
Peter Bearman and Peter Hedstrom. In press. |
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2008 "Comparisons Across Empires: The
Critical Social Structures of the Ottomans, Russians and
Habsburgs," (with Rudi Batzell) in Empires in
Contention: Sociology, History and Cultural Difference,
eds. P.F. Bang and C.A. Bayly. In press. |
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"Trajectoires imperiales:
L'histoire connectée ou
études
comparées?"
Revue
d'histoire moderne et contemporaine,
Vol. 54-4bis; 2007. |
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"Islam and
Toleration: Studying the Ottoman Imperial Model," International
Journal of Politics, Culture and Society,
Vol. 19, No. 1-2 (2007). |
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"Changing
Modalities of Empire: A Comparative Study of the Ottoman
and Habsburg Decline," in Empire
to Nation eds, Joseph W. Esherick and Hasan
Kayali (London, Rowan and Littlefield, 2006). |
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"Hegemonic Rise and Decline in
Comparative Perspective: Lessons from the Early 20th Century," in
Hegemonic
Declines: Past and Present eds., Jonathan
Friedman and Christopher Chase-Dunn Paradigm Press,
Boulder Colorado. September 2004. |
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"Negotiated Paths to Nationhood: A
Comparison of Hungary and Romania in the Early Twentieth
Century," East European Politics
and Societies, Vol. 14, No. 3; Fall 2000. |
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"Networks of Contention: Villages and
Regional Structure in the Seventeenth Centur |
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"In Different Times: Scheduling and
Social Control in the Ottoman Empire, 1550-1650," Comparative
Studies in Society and History, 38: 3 (1996). |
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"Rebellious Alliances: The State and
Peasant Unrest in Early 17th Century France and the
Ottoman Empire," American
Sociological Review, 56 (December 1991), pp.
699-715. |
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"Comparative Perspectives on the State," with S. Parikh, The Annual Review of sociology 17, (1991). |
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"The Use of Court Records in the
Reconstruction of Village Networks: A Comparative
Perspective," International Journal
of Comparative Sociology, XXXII, 1-2 (1991). |
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"States in Search of Legitimacy," with
Daniel Chirot, International
Journal of Comparative Sociology, Vol. XXIV,
1-2 (1983). |
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"Durkheim Scholarship and Suicidology,"
with K. D. Breault, The
Sociological Quarterly, Vol. 24 (Autumn 1983). |
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"A Comparative Analysis of Durkheim's
Theory of Egoistic Suicide," with K. D. Breault, |
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Review Article of James Mahoney and
Dietrich Rueshemeyer, Comparative Historical Analysis in
the Social Sciences. New York: Cambridge University Press,
2003. in Historical
Methods: A
Journal of Quantitative and
Interdisciplinary History,
Vol 39. 4 (Fall 2006). |
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After
Empire In Search of Imperial Legacy: Historians'
Recollections and Historiographic Milestones pp. 34-37
Ab Imperio 4 2005. |
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Review of Ehud R. Toledano, Slavery
and Abolition in the Ottoman Middle East in International
Labor
and Working Class History. Vol.
56, 1999. |
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Author, Los Angeles Times, Editorial
Page Article, June 1999. |
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Review article of
Halil Inalcik, The Middle East and the Balkans under
the Ottoman Empire: Essays on Economy and Society in
Mediterranean Historical Review,
Vol. 9 (June 1994). |
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“Haim Gerber's The Social
Origins of the Modern Middle East: a Critical Review,
” International Review of Social History,
Vol XXXIV, 2 (1989). |