Rethinking State-Society Relations in the Ottoman Empire: Making the Modern State and Moral Economic Revolts, 1789-1839

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2024-6

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Keklik, Necati Ege

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This study seeks to understand the political intervention of the urban and rural lower classes of the Ottoman Empire in the formation of the "modern state". The main argument is that the elements and tendencies of capitalist relations of production began to emerge in the Ottoman Empire at the end of the 16th century and that each stage of this transformation process was met with the reaction and political intervention of the artisans, who constituted the urban lower classes, and the peasants, who constituted the provincial lower classes. The secondary and tertiary aims of the study are to reveal the political and sociological formation of the Ottoman lower classes and the political agenda they employed in the process, and to present the types of political organization and forms of social movement of the lower classes. The study aims to show that the Ottoman lower classes developed a resistance/counter-action dynamic based on "Moral Economic Principles" systematized by Marxist historian E. P. Thompson and later developed by James C. Scott for village societies against the emerging capitalist elements that can be summarized as private property, exploitation-based labor regimes, and relations of production and distribution based on economic coercion.

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Osmanlı Devleti=Ottoman State, Osmanlı İnkılabı=Ottoman Revolution, Siyasi iktidar=Political power, Sınıf iktidarı=Class domination, Halk hareketi=People's movement, İsyan ahlakı=Rebellion ethics, Moral ekonomi=Moral economy, Kültürel ekonomi politik=Cultural political economy, Tarihsel ekonomi politik = Historical political economy, Modern devlet=Modern state, Devlet-toplum ilişkileri=State-society relations

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/109876

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Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis