The collapse of rural order in Ottoman Anatolia : : Amasya 1576-1643 / / by Oktay Özel.

• Author: Özel, Oktay.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston ;, Leiden : : Brill,, [2016]
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: The Ottoman Empire and its Heritage 61.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (293 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Did the ‘seventeenth-century crisis’ visit the Ottoman Empire? How can we situate the explosion of rural violence and the rebellions of the turn of the seventeenth century in the Anatolian countryside? The Collapse of Rural Order in Ottoman Anatolia provides the reader with a fresh and innovative perspective on the long scholarly debate over the question of ‘decline’ in early modern Ottoman history. It offers a new agenda, new type of source material, and a new methodology for the study of demographic crisis. Through a systematic examination of little-known detailed avârız registers, Oktay Özel demonstrates in detail the mass desertion of rural settlements, the destruction of agricultural economy, and the resulting collapse of rural order in Ottoman Anatolia at the turn of the seventeenth century.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Geography and Politics -- 3 Land, Society, and Empire (Through 1576) -- 4 The Collapse of Rural Order: A Comparison (1576–1643) -- 5 What Happened? An Assessment -- 6 Conclusion -- Appendix i: Tahrir and Avârız Registers of Amasya -- Appendix ii: Revenue Holders and Revenue Distribution -- Appendix iii: Urban Population in the Province of Rûm, 1520–1643 -- Appendix iv: Rural Settlements with their Tax-Paying Population (c. 1480–1643) -- Bibliography -- Index.