Серия "Studies in Modernity and National Identity"

A Moveable Empire examines the history of the Ottoman Empire through a new lens, focusing on the migrant groups that lived within its bounds and their changing relationship to the state's central authorities. Unlike earlier studies that take an evolutionary view of tribe-state relations – casting the development of a state as a story in which nomadic tribes give way to settled populations – this book argues that mobile groups played an important role in shaping Ottoman institutions and,...