The Ottoman Empire, 1300-1650 The Structure

A revised and expanded second edition of a#xA0;highly-praised account of the structure of the government of the Ottoman Empire to the mid-seventeenth century.#xA0;Colin Imber#xA0;incorporates the latest research, and the text now also features a new chapter on taxation as well as#xA0;an up-to-date Bibliography.

COLIN IMBER was Reader in Turkish at the University of Manchester, UK until his recent retirement.

Anatolia, c. 1340	p. viii
The expansion of the Ottoman Empire	p. ix
The Borders of the Ottoman Empire, sixteenth/seventeenth centuries	p. x
The Ottoman-Hapsburg frontier, 1600	p. xi
Ottoman provinces, sixteenth century	p. xii
Preface to the Second Edition	p. xiii
Chronology	p. 1
The Ottoman Empire in 1650	p. 1
Before the Ottomans	p. 3
The Ottoman Emirate: from Triumph to disaster, 1300-1402	p. 7
The Ottoman Emirate: civil war and recovery, 1402-51	p. 16
The Ottoman Empire: conquest and consolidation, 1451-1512	p. 25
The apogee of Empire, 1512-90	p. 39
The Ottoman times of trouble, 1590-1650	p. 58
The Dynasty	p. 75
Reproduction and family structure	p. 75
Succession	p. 84
Accession	p. 102
Legitimsation	p. 107
Recruitment	p. 116
The Palace	p. 131
Palaces	p. 131
The household	p. 135
The Imperial council	p. 141
The Provinces	p. 164
Provinces	p. 164
Sanjaks	p. 170
Fiefs	p. 181
Peasant tenements	p. 192
The provinces transformed	p. 194
The Law	p. 204
Legal communities	p. 204
The sacred law	p. 205
Colleges, muftis and judges	p. 212
The secular law	p. 230
Taxation	p. 239
Taxes due to fief-holders	p. 239
Taxes due to the treasury	p. 242
Treasury deficits	p. 247
Tax-farming	p. 253
Payments	p. 257
Personnel	p. 259
The Army	p. 262
The fourteenth century	p. 262
1400-1590: Troops	p. 266
1400-1590: Weapons	p. 275
1400-1590: Tactics	p. 284
After 1590: the 'military revolution'	p. 290
The Fleet	p. 295
The Ottomans and the sea	p. 295
Ships	p. 296
Shipbuildings	p. 299
Admirals	p. 304
Captains and Crews	p. 309
Troops	p. 315
Tactics	p. 317
Some Conclusions	p. 324
Notes	p. 332
Glossary	p. 361
Sources Quoted	p. 368
Bibliography	p. 374
Index	p. 395
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