Remembering One's Roots

Lowry, Heath W.

Erünsal, Ismail E.

Bahcesehir University Press

The story behind Ambassador Morgenthau's story

The story behind Ambassador Morgenthau's story

ISIS Press

This work examines the manner in which the Ottomans established control, in the fourteenth and fifteenth century, over a largely Orthodox Christian population in the Balkans and Aegean basin. It argues that their success in ruling the multi-ethnic, multi-confessional state thus created was due less to force of numbers than it was to their granting a wide variety of concessions and privileges to their subjects. This policy, known as istimalet, or good will and accommodation, stemmed, according to Lowry, from a combination of factors including a severe shortage of trained manpower to administer their ever-growing polity and an understanding, from a remarkably early period, that the fruits of conquest (booty and slaves) were no substitute for the steady flow of income (tax revenues) which could be obtained from a population whose support they enjoyed. 
This book provides the reader a fascinating behind the scenes glimpse into how the early Ottomans managed to create a world empire primarily among peoples whose languages, religions and cultures were all equally foreign to them.

Fifteenth Century Ottoman Realities

Eren

Recollections of a Peace Corps volunteer's time spent in a Turkish village in the 1960s.

An Ongoing Affair: Turkey & I

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Citlembik Publications

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