THE OTTOMAN STATE
AND
ITS PLACE IN WORLD HISTORY
EDITED BY
KEMAL H. KARPAT
LEIDEN
E. J. BRILL
1974
SOCIAL, ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL
STUDIES OF THE MIDDLE EAST
ETUDES SOCIALES, ECONOMIQUES ET
POLITIQUES DU MOYEN ORIENT
VOLUME XI
KEMAL H. KARPAT
THE OTTOMAN STATE
AND
ITS PLACE IN WORLD HISTORY
LEIDEN
E. J. BRILL
1974
Comile de redaction- Editorial committee
F. BARTH (University of Bergen), E. GELLNER (London School of Economics),
C. lsSAWI (Columbia University). S. KHALAF (American University of Beirut),
M. F. AL-KHATIB (Cairo University), P. MARTHEl..OT (Ecole Pratique des Hautes
:Etudes, Paris), S. H. NASR (Arya-Mehr University of Technology Tehran), M. SOYSAL
(Ankara University), M. ZoHAL (Universite de Tunis).
Redacteur- Editor
C. A.O.
VAN NrEUWENHUIJZE
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CONTENTS
KEMAL H. ICARPAT. Introduction .
1
ARNOLD J. TOYNBEE, The Ottoman Empires Place in World
History.
Comment by JOHN W. BARKER .
28
WILLIAM H. MCNEILL, The Ottoman Empire in World History
Comment by ANDREW c. HESS .
34
47
HALIL 1NALC1K, The Turkish Impact on the Development of
Modern Europe .
Comment by C. MAX KoR.TEPEIER. .
51
15
58
ALBERT HO'U'RANI, The Ottoman Background of the Modern
Middle East .
61
K.EMAL H. ICARPAT, The Stages of Ottoman History : A Structural
Comparative Approach .
Comment by C. A. 0. VAN NIEUWENHWZE .
79
99
CHAR.LES IssA WT, The Ottoman Empire in the European Economy,
1600-1914. Some Observations and Many Questions
107
STANFORD J. SHAW, Ottoman and Turkish Studies in the United
States .
Comment by RICHARD L. CHAMBERS .
126
118