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Paperback. Pbo. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In English. 268 p. Introduction: A Venture into Ottoman History as World History or A Personal Agenda for Ottoman History The Ottoman Empire and the World System Perspective: A Critical View Oriental Despotism in World System Perspective in The Ottoman Empire and the World Economy. Edited by Huri Islamoglu-Inan. Cambridge: CUP, 1987. pp. 1-24. The Middle East and North Africa in the World Economy: Gran and Seddon Reconsidered, METU Studies in Development, vol. 18, no. 3 (1991), pp. 307-42. 'Peasants, Commercialisation and Legitimisation of State Power in Sixteenth Century Anatolia in Landholding and Commercial Agriculture in the Ottoman Empire. Edited by Çaglar Keyder and Faruk Tabak. New York: SUNY Press, 1991. pp. 5776. The Ottoman Empire in Comparative Perspective: Not that Unique after All. An Agenda for Comparative History: Law and Property as Aspects of State Power, METU Studies in Development, vol. 19, no. 4 (1992), pp. 60720. Why European History? METU Studies in Development, vol. 22, no. 3 (1995), pp. 221-230. Ottoman and Chinese Modernities Compared: State Transformations and Constitutions of Property in Qing and Ottoman Empires in the 18th and the 19th Centuries, Journal of Early Modern History, vol. 5, no. 4 (Fall 2001) pp. 352-386 Towards a Political Economy of Ottoman Modernity and Beyond. A History of the Idea of Civil Society (expanded version of Civil Society, history of the idea of in International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences. Edited by N. J. Smelser and Paul B. Baltes. Oxford : Pergamon, 2001 Property as a Contested Domain: A Re-evaluation of the Ottoman Land Code of 1858. (revised version of the article with the same title in New Perspectives on Property and Land in the Middle East. Edited by Roger Owen. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2000. pp. 3-61) Politics of Administering Property: Law and Statistics in the 19th Century Ottoman Empire, in Constituting Modernity: Private Property in the East and the West. Edited by Huri Islamoglu. London: I.B. Tauris, 2004. pp. 276-319) ?Words that Rule: From Bureaucratic 'Commissions? to Governing 'Boards'.