The climate of rebellion in the early modern Ottoman Empire
"This book tells how extreme cold and drought during the Little Ice Age along with rising population pressure and resource shortages created a serious rebellion in the Ottoman Empire in the 1590s. It argues that the rebellion was a major turning point for the Ottomans, reversing more than a cen...
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2011.
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| Series: | Studies in environment and history
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Table of Contents:
- Pt. 1. An imperial ecology
- Regions, resources, and settlement
- Growth and its limits
- Disasters of the later sixteenth century
- Land at the margins : Karaman and Larende
- pt. 2. The Little Ice Age crisis
- The Little Ice Age in the Near East
- The great drought
- The Celali Rebellion
- In the wake of the Celalis : climate and crisis in the seventeenth century
- pt. 3. Ecological transformation
- Desert and snow
- City and country
- Provisioning and commerce
- Conclusion.