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Halcyon Days in Crete VIII: OTTOMAN RURAL SOCIETIES AND ECONOMIES
A Symposium Held in Rethymno, 13-15 January 2012
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Κατά την τελευταία εικοσαετία οι αγρότες είναι σχεδόν παντελώς απόντες στην οθωμανολογική ιστοριογραφία. Ο τόμος αυτός έχει στόχο να τους επαναφέρει στην επικαιρότητα της οθωμανικής ιστορίας. Σε αντίθεση με τις παλαιότερες προσεγγίσεις, οι οποίες εστίαζαν στο κράτος ως τον κύριο ρυθμιστή των αγροτικών κοινωνιών, το συμπόσιο αυτό επιδίωξε να ερευνήσει τις οικονομικές και κοινωνικές σχέσεις στην ύπαιθρο της Οθωμανικής Αυτοκρατορίας όχι μόνο από τη σκοπιά της κεντρικής διοίκησης, αλλά και από εκείνη των ίδιων των αγροτικών κοινωνιών. Στον παρόντα τόμο, στόχος είναι να αναδειχθούν θεματικές που δεν έχουν ακόμα ερευνηθεί ή πρέπει να αναθεωρηθούν και να ριχθεί φως στις διαφορετικές πορείες των αγροτικών οικονομιών και κοινωνιών στην αχανή επικράτεια της Οθωμανικής Αυτοκρατορίας.
For 20 years now peasants have been almost completely absent from Ottomanist historiography. Since 1996 almost no major monograph has been devoted to Ottoman peasant history. This is in sharp contrast with the importance given to the study of Ottoman rural society and economy by earlier Ottomanist historiography.
In his classic History of the Ottoman Empire, published in 1973, the doyen of Ottoman studies, Halil Inalcik, described the Ottoman Empire as a "peasant empire". However, for the Ottomanist historiography of the beginning of the twenty-first century, it looks as though the Ottoman Empire was rather an "empire of difference".
This volume follows an initiative aimed at putting the peasants back on the agenda of Ottoman history. However, we do not seek (how could we?) to reinstate the historiographical status quo ante nor to attack the many achievements of contemporary historiography. Moreover, unlike the earlier approach of some "classic" works on this subject, which focused on the state as a central actor in rural societies, our symposium sought to investigate economic and social relations in the countryside of the Ottoman Empire not only from the viewpoint of the central administration, but also from that of rural societies. In the present volume, our aim is to highlight themes that are still today unexplored or deserve revision, and throw light on the diverse trajectories of rural economies and societies in the long history and vast lands of the Ottoman Empire.
For 20 years now peasants have been almost completely absent from Ottomanist historiography. Since 1996 almost no major monograph has been devoted to Ottoman peasant history. This is in sharp contrast with the importance given to the study of Ottoman rural society and economy by earlier Ottomanist historiography.
In his classic History of the Ottoman Empire, published in 1973, the doyen of Ottoman studies, Halil Inalcik, described the Ottoman Empire as a "peasant empire". However, for the Ottomanist historiography of the beginning of the twenty-first century, it looks as though the Ottoman Empire was rather an "empire of difference".
This volume follows an initiative aimed at putting the peasants back on the agenda of Ottoman history. However, we do not seek (how could we?) to reinstate the historiographical status quo ante nor to attack the many achievements of contemporary historiography. Moreover, unlike the earlier approach of some "classic" works on this subject, which focused on the state as a central actor in rural societies, our symposium sought to investigate economic and social relations in the countryside of the Ottoman Empire not only from the viewpoint of the central administration, but also from that of rural societies. In the present volume, our aim is to highlight themes that are still today unexplored or deserve revision, and throw light on the diverse trajectories of rural economies and societies in the long history and vast lands of the Ottoman Empire.
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