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Drawing on William Dawes' unpublished notebooks on the Indigenous languages spoken around Sydney Cove at the time of white settlement, this article hopes to provoke critical reflection on the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

A. W. Lintott has recently analyzed Cicero's relationship with T. Annius Milo, elucidating the motives at the political and personal level which produced this oddly matched amicitia1). Briefly, it can be said that Cicero's hatred and fear of Clodius, his sense of insecurity after his exile, and his efforts in the post rediturn period to assume again an authoritative position in Roman politics, led him to countenance a policy of civil violence which seems poorly suited to his stated views about proper political action. Lintott shows how Cicero resolved this tension on the basis of traditional Roman notions about the use of violence (vis) in private and public conflicts, rooted in the idea of self-help in Roman litigation and extended in the Late Republic to the use of armed followers in defense of dignitas aeainst real or imagined threats2). Lintott successfully traces this historical development, and isolates Cicero's numerous appeals to the notion in the neat of political action; but he does not adequately consider the importance to Cicero personally of developing a workable philosophical ethic to justify his political views: our studies indicate that Cicero was not able to justify fully the use of extreme violence against civeSy especially homicide, until after his unsuccessful defense of Milo in 52; for it is in the published version of the Pro Milone that the jargon of factional politics, e. g., tyrannus and regnurn, is transformed into the binding vocabulary of philosophy. Failure to recognize this developmental aspect of Cicero's political philosophy in the 50's has led scholars to describe a unity in Cicero's thought, dating as early as 593), from the statements

Philosophy and rhetoric in cicero's "pro milone"

1. The triumviral period Christopher Pelling 2. Political history, 30 BC to AD 14 J. A. Crook 3. Augustus: power, authority, achievement J. A. Crook 4. The expansion of the Empire under Augustus Erich S. Gruen 5. Tiberius to Nero T. E. J. Wiedemann 6. From Nero to Vespasian T. E. J. Wiedemann 7. The imperial court Andrew Wallace-Hadrill 8. The imperial finances D. W. Rathbone 9. The senate, senatorial and equestrian posts Richard J. A. Talbert 10. Provincial administration and taxation Alan K. Bowman 11. The army and the navy Lawrence Keppie 12. The administration of justice H. Galsterer 13a. Italy and Rome from Sulla to Augustus M. H. Crawford 13b. Sicily, Sardinia and Corsica R. J. A. Wilson 13c. Spain C. Alfoldy 13d. Gaul C. Goudineau 13e. Britain 43 BC to AD 69 John Wacher 13f. Germany C. Ruger 13g. Raetia H. Wolff 13h. The Danubian and Balkan provinces J. J. Wilkes 13i. Roman Africa: Augustus to Vespasian C. R. Whittaker 13j. Cyrene Joyce Reynolds and J. A. Lloyd 14a. Greece (including Crete and Cyprus) and Asia Minor from 43 BC to AD 69 B. M. Levick 14b. Egypt Alan K. Bowman 14c. Syria David Kennedy 14d. Judaea Martin Goodman 15. Rome and its development under Augustus and his successors Nicholas Purcell 16. The place of religion: Rome in the early Empire S. R. F. Price 17. The origins and spread of Christianity G. W. Clarke 18. Social status and social legislation Susan Treggiari 19. Literature and society Gavin Townend 20. Roman art 43 BC to AD 69 Mario Torelli 21. Early classical private law Bruce W. Frier Appendices Stemmata Chronological table Bibliography.

The Augustan Empire, 43 B.C.-A.D. 69

List of Figures. List of Maps. Preface. Abbreviations. 1 Introduction. 2 The Growth of an Empire. 3 The Crisis of the Late Republic. 4 The Emperor and his People. 5 Town and Country. 6 Customs, Culture, and Ideas. 7 The Armed Services and the Frontiers. Notes. References. Index.

The Romans in the Age of Augustus

List of maps List of text figures Preface 1. The crisis of the Republic: sources and source-problems 2. The Roman empire and its problems in the late second century 3. Political history, 146-95 BC 4. Rome and Italy: the Social War 5. Mithridates 6. Sulla 7. The rise of Pompey 8a. Lucullus, Pompey and the East 8b. The Jews under Hasmonean rule 8c. Egypt, 146-31 BC 9. The Senate and the populares, 69-60 BC 10. Caesar, Pompey and Rome, 59-50 BC 11. Caesar: civil war and dictatorship 12. The aftermath of the Ides 13. The constitution and public criminal law 14. The development of Roman private law 15. The administration of the empire 16. Economy and society, 133-43 BC 17. The city of Rome and the plebs urbana in the late Republic 18. The intellectual developments of the Ciceronian age 19. Religion Epilogue Stemmata Chronological table.

Andrew Lintott

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Philosophy and rhetoric in cicero's "pro milone"

The Augustan Empire, 43 B.C.-A.D. 69

The Romans in the Age of Augustus

The last age of the Roman Republic, 146-43 B.C.

Aristotle and the Mixed Constitution