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. |
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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
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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). |