Bandits and Bureaucrats: The Market of Kinshasa by Karen Barkey

Bandits and Bureaucrats: The Market of Kinshasa

Karen Barkey

304 pages first pub 1994 (editions)

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Why did the main challenge to the Ottoman state come not in peasant or elite rebellions, but in endemic banditry? Karen Barkey shows how Turkish strategies of incorporating peasants and rotating elites kept both groups dependent on the state, unab...

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