The Climate of Rebellion in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire
The Climate of Rebellion in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire
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The Climate of Rebellion in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire explores the serious and far-reaching impacts of Little Ice Age climate fluctuations in Ottoman lands. This study demonstrates how imperial systems of provisioning and settlement that defined Ottoman power in the 1500s came unraveled in the face of ecological pressures and extreme cold and drought, leading to the outbreak of the destructive Celali Rebellion (1595–1610). This rebellion marked a turning point in Ottoman fortunes, as a combination of ongoing Little Ice Age climate events, nomad incursions and rural disorder postponed Ottoman recovery over the following century, with enduring impacts on the region's population, land use and economy.
- A perspective on the Little Ice Age in world history by a historian rather than climatologist
- Offers an environmental history of the Ottoman Empire
- One of the most accessible academic books on Ottoman history in recent years for non-specialists, particularly world or environmental historians
Product details
July 2013Paperback
9781107614307
376 pages
229 × 152 × 21 mm
0.55kg
7 b/w illus. 6 maps 3 tables
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Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Part I. An Imperial Ecology:
- 1. Regions, resources, and settlement
- 2. Growth and its limits
- 3. Disasters of the later sixteenth century
- 4. Land at the margins: Karaman and Larende
- Part II. The Little Ice Age Crisis:
- 5. The Little Ice Age in the Near East
- 6. The great drought
- 7. The Celali Rebellion
- 8. In the wake of the Celalis: climate and crisis in the seventeenth century
- Part III. Ecological Transformation:
- 9. Desert and sown
- 10. City and country
- 11. Provisioning and commerce
- Conclusion.
