Publications:

 

 

 

Books, Edited Volumes, and Monographs

Book Award

Research Articles

Minor Publications

 

Books, Edited Volumes, and Monographs

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.

Bandits and Bureaucrats: The Ottoman Route to State Centralization, 1994, Cornell University Press. Translated into Turkish, 1999.

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.

 

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.

 

Book Awards

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.

Barrington Moore Award: best book in the area of comparative/historical sociology for Empire of Difference: Ottomans in Comparative Perspective, 2009 American Sociological Association.

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.

 

Research Articles


“Aspects of Legal Pluralism in the Ottoman Empire: A Relational Field of Religious Differentiation” in Legal Pluralism and Empires, 1500-1850, eds. Lauren Benton and Richard Ross.

“Empire and Toleration: A Comparative Sociology of Toleration within Empire,” in Boundaries of Toleration, eds. Alfred Stepan and Charles Taylor, Columbia University Press, 2011.

“States, Regimes and Decisions: Why Jews were Expelled from Medieval England and France,” (with Ira Katznelson) Theory and Society, Vol. 40 (2011).


“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.


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.


“Analytic Historical Sociology,” pp. 712-734 in The Oxford Handbook of Analytic Sociology, eds. Peter Bearman and Peter Hedstrom, Oxford University Press, 2009.

2008 "Analytic Historical Sociology", in The Oxford Handbook of Analytic Sociology, eds. Peter Bearman and Peter Hedstrom. In press.

 

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.

"Trajectoires imperiales: L'histoire connectée ou études comparées?" Revue d'histoire moderne et contemporaine, Vol. 54-4bis; 2007.

"Islam and Toleration: Studying the Ottoman Imperial Model," International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society, Vol. 19, No. 1-2 (2007).

"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).

"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.

"Network of Contention: Villages and Regional Structure in the Seventeenth Century Ottoman Empire". Reprinted in Social Networks: Critical Concepts in Sociology, Routledge Press, 2002.

"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.

"Networks of Contention: Villages and Regional Structure in the Seventeenth Century Ottoman Empire," with R. van Rossem, American Journal of Sociology, 102: 5 (March 1997).

"In Different Times: Scheduling and Social Control in the Ottoman Empire, 1550-1650," Comparative Studies in Society and History, 38: 3 (1996).

"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.

"Comparative Perspectives on the State," with S. Parikh, The Annual Review of sociology 17, (1991).

"The Use of Court Records in the Reconstruction of Village Networks: A Comparative Perspective," International Journal of Comparative Sociology, XXXII, 1-2 (1991).

"States in Search of Legitimacy," with Daniel Chirot, International Journal of Comparative Sociology, Vol. XXIV, 1-2 (1983).

"Durkheim Scholarship and Suicidology," with K. D. Breault, The Sociological Quarterly, Vol. 24 (Autumn 1983).

"A Comparative Analysis of Durkheim's Theory of Egoistic Suicide," with K. D. Breault, The Sociological Quarterly, Vol. 23 (Summer 1982).

 

Minor Publications

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).

After Empire In Search of Imperial Legacy: Historians' Recollections and Historiographic Milestones pp. 34-37 Ab Imperio 4 2005.

Review of Ehud R. Toledano, Slavery and Abolition in the Ottoman Middle East in International Labor and Working Class History. Vol. 56, 1999.

Author, Los Angeles Times, Editorial Page Article, June 1999.

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).

Haim Gerber's The Social Origins of the Modern Middle East: a Critical Review, ” International Review of Social History, Vol XXXIV, 2 (1989).