Karen Barkey is currently a Professor of Sociology and History at Columbia University. She is the author of Bandits and Bureaucrats: The Ottoman Route to State Centralization, winner of the Social Science History Award in 1995 and co-editor of After Empire: Multiethnic Societies and Nation-Building: The Soviet Union, and the Russian, Habsburg and Ottoman Empires with Mark von Hagen. She has been awarded fellowships from the United States Institute of Peace, Social Science Research Council - MacArthur and National Humanities Center.
Part I: 1. Introduction
2. Emergence: brokerage across networks
3. Becoming an empire: imperial institutions and control
4. Maintaining empire: an expression of tolerance
5. The social organization of dissent
Part II. The Transformation of the Eighteenth Century: 6. An eventful eighteenth century: empowering the political
7. A networking society: commercialization, tax-farming, and social relations
8. On the road out of empire: Ottomans struggle from empire to nation-state.
