This book is a comparative study of imperial organization and longevity that assesses Ottoman successes as well as failures against those of other empires with similar characteristics. Barkey examines the Ottoman Empire's social organization and mechanisms of rule at key moments of its history, emergence, imperial institutionalization, remodeling, and transition to nation-state, revealing how the empire managed these moments, adapted, and averted crises and what changes made it transform dramatically. The flexible techniques by which the Ottomans maintained their legitimacy, the cooperation of their diverse elites both at the center and in the provinces, as well as their control over economic and human resources were responsible for the longevity of this particular 'negotiated empire'. Her analysis illuminates topics that include imperial governance, imperial institutions, imperial diversity and multiculturalism, the manner in which dissent is handled and/or internalized, and the nature of state society negotiations.

Empire of Difference: The Ottomans in Comparative Perspective

Social status and legal privilege in the Roman Empire

Introduction Part I: 1. Who stole what? Time and space 2. Antiquity: no markets, but did they invent politics, freedom and the alphabet? 3. Feudalism: transition to capitalism or the collapse of Europe and the domination of Asia 4. Asiatic despots, in Turkey and elsewhere? Part II: 5. Science and civilization in Renaissance Europe 6. The theft of 'civilization': Elias and Absolutist Europe 7. The theft of 'capitalism': Braudel and global comparison Part III: 8. The theft of institutions, towns and universities 9. The appropriation of values: humanism, democracy and individualism 10. Stolen love: European claims to the emotions 11. Last words Bibliography.

The Theft of History

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Human and nature dynamics (HANDY): Modeling inequality and use of resources in the collapse or sustainability of societies

Drawing on William Dawes' unpublished notebooks on the Indigenous languages spoken around Sydney Cove at the time of white settlement, this article hopes to provoke critical reflection on the limits of the law Dawes' record of communication with Patyegarang documents a transaction that was both political and erotic, both about the law and in defiance of it In performances that were gestural as well as verbal, they marked out a middle ground where the laws governing both of them were placed in parentheses and new, provisional, rules of exchange improvised This article notices the existence of this middle ground, and marks its disappearance in subsequent legal discourse about the status of Indigenous people Ultimately, it offers a reflection on the laws that govern the meeting place which the middle ground underwrites That is, before public space became fixed for the legally binding discourse of politics, it was mobile and self-constituting Is this simply a myth or is it a mythopoetic mechanism for rethinking the grounding of law in Australia? If it is the latter, then the next step will be to establish a middle ground of exchange with Indigenous law-giving systems

Public Space: Its Mythopoetic Foundations and the Limits of the Law

The Gracchi Luciano Perelli: I Gracchi. (Profili, 19.) Pp. 280; 8 plates, 3 maps. Rome: Salerno Editrice, 1993. Cased.

Pompeii and Herculaneum are well known as sources for the study of Roman social life; not so well known are the wax tablets found there, which are perhaps our most intimate contact with Roman private law. My aim in this paper is to use these tablets in their context to illuminate the lives of those who lived and worked either side of the frontier between freedom and slavery. The topic is important in itself, but it has a special appeal on account of the immediacy of the evidence. Two particular themes may be mentioned in anticipation—first, the important but precarious socioeconomic position of Roman slaves as both agents and objects, and secondly, the problems of the manumitted, especially after Augustus’ legislation.

Freedmen and Slaves in the Light of Legal Documents from First-Century A.D. Campania

At the beginning of this volume readers were offered a brief survey of opinions down the ages about the causes of the fall of the Republic; now, with the facts before them, they will have formed opinions of their own. However, they may still, reasonably, expect the editors of the volume to state theirs: how should this tumultuous period be summed up, and, especially, are there any integrating concepts to link the political and military narrative of the first part with the subsequent chapters about law and society, economics, religion and ideas? Some parallel may here be perceived to the debates about the fall of the Roman Empire. In that case the simplistic question, ‘did it decline or was it assassinated?’, though requiring to be reformulated and answered with considerable subtlety, remains not a bad starting-point. So: did the political order that we know as the Roman Republic decline, or was it assassinated? Did it contain the dialectic of its own collapse, or could it, but for the ambitions of certain dynasts (above all, Pompey and Caesar, Antony and Octavian), have survived the changes taking place in Roman society? Both the experience of another twenty centuries and the refinements of modern historical explanation make it out of the question for us to be content with the standard answer given by the Romans themselves, that the political order was destroyed by moral decline resulting from wealth, greed and luxury. Change was occurring in moral conceptions, as in everything else, but that is true of all periods and is not necessarily a symptom of morbidity in the body politic.

The fall of the Roman Republic

The Cambridge Ancient History, Second Edition Volume 9: The Last Age of the Roman Republic 146-43 B. C.

ABBREVIATIONS PREFACE INTRODUCTION DEMOSTHENES CHRONOLOGY LIFE OF DEMOSTHENES NOTES TO LIFE OF DEMOSTHENES CICERO CHRONOLOGY LIFE OF CICERO AND COMPARISON NOTES TO LIFE OF CICERO BIBLIOGRAPHY

Andrew Lintott

Papers

The Gracchi Luciano Perelli: I Gracchi. (Profili, 19.) Pp. 280; 8 plates, 3 maps. Rome: Salerno Editrice, 1993. Cased.

Freedmen and Slaves in the Light of Legal Documents from First-Century A.D. Campania

The fall of the Roman Republic

The Cambridge Ancient History, Second Edition Volume 9: The Last Age of the Roman Republic 146-43 B. C.

Plutarch : Demosthenes and Cicero