Title The Climate of Rebellion in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire

Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (378 pages) Series Studies in Environment and History Studies in environment and history. Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; Glossary of Ottoman Terms; Introduction; The Seventeenth-Century Crisis; Near East Environmental History; Climate Events in History; Part I AN IMPERIAL ECOLOGY; Introduction to Part I: Rebuilding the Fleet; 1 Regions, Resources, and Settlement; Provisionism; Regions; Resources; Timber; Grain; Sheep; Settlement; Conclusion: Ecology and Empire; 2 Growth and Its Limits; Numbers; Population Pressure; Barriers to Growth; Economic Turmoil and Unrest; Conclusion: A Malthusian Crisis?; 3 Disasters of the Late Sixteenth Century FaminePlague; War and Banditry; Breakdowns in the Provisioning System; Conclusion: Was Crisis Inevitable?; 4 Land at The Margins; The Semiarid Steppe; Karaman; Larende; Center and Periphery; Conclusion: Karaman and the Climate of Rebellion; Conclusion to Part I: Ottoman Imperial Ecology in Perspective; Part II THE LITTLE ICE AGE CRISIS; Introduction to Part II: The Freezing of the Bosphorus; 5 The Little Ice Age in the Near East; Climatic Factors in the Near East; Reconstructing the Little Ice Age; Conclusion: The Onset of the Little Ice Age; 6 The Great Drought; The Drought The Hungarian WarThe Breakdown of Provisioning Systems; The Rise of Banditry; Flight, Plague, and Famine; Let Them Eat Goat; 7 The Celali Rebellion; "Karaman'n Koyunu, Sonra Çkar Oyunu"; The Celalis; The Little Ice Age Continued; The Great Celali Campaigns; The Climax and Conclusion of Rebellion; Conclusion: The Rebellion in Perspective; 8 In the Wake of the Celalis; The Ottoman Crisis in Context; The Fall of Sultan Osman II; A Time of Troubles, 1620s-1630s; The Demographic Crisis; The Fall of Sultan Ibrahim and the Disasters of 1660; The Late Maunder Minimum Conclusion: Climate, Crisis, and TransformationConclusion to Part II: Climate and Causation in the Ottoman Crisis; Part III ECOLOGICAL TRANSFORMATION; Introduction to Part III: The Slow Recovery; 9 Desert and Sown; Ottomans and Nomads; Settlement and Conflict; The Invasion; Resettlement Efforts -- Promise and Failure; Conclusion: The Sheeps Revenge?; 10 City and Country; Urban Growth before the Crisis; The Flight to the Cities; The Crisis in Ottoman Cities; Urban Disease and the Demographic Drain; Conclusion; 11 Provisioning and Commerce; From Provisioning to Commerce The Ottoman Empire and the World EconomyThe Transformation of Ottoman Land Use; Changes in the Land?; Conclusion: The Opening of Ottoman Lands; Conclusion to Part III: The Ottoman Transformation in Ecological Perspective; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index Summary This book explores the serious and far-reaching impacts of Little Ice Age climate fluctuations in Ottoman lands Notes Print version record Subject Climatic changes -- Social aspects -- Turkey -- History Natural resources -- Turkey -- History Natural resources -- Turkey -- Management -- History Social change -- Turkey -- History Social conflict -- Turkey -- History Climatic changes -- Social aspects Climatology Ecology Natural resources Natural resources -- Management Population Social change Social conflict SUBJECT Turkey -- Climate -- History Turkey -- Environmental conditions Turkey -- History -- Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85138802 Turkey -- Population -- History Subject Turkey Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781139117838 1139117831

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