Barkey, Karen,  1958- <br/><br/>
Empire of difference :  the Ottomans in comparative perspective / 
Karen Barkey. 
 - Cambridge ;  New York :  Cambridge University Press,  2008. 
 - xv, 342 p. :  ill. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-322) and index. 
<br/><br/>Introduction -- Emergence : brokerage across networks -- Becoming an empire : imperial institutions and control -- Maintaining empire : an expression of tolerance -- The social organization of dissent -- An eventful eighteenth century : empowering the political -- A networking society : commercialization, tax farming, and social relations -- On the road out of empire : Ottomans struggle from empire to nation-state. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780521715331 9780521887403 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Turkey--History--18th century.<br/>Turkey--History--Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>DR531  / B37 2008