March 23-25


The Embassy of Vicomte D'Andrezel [France] to Sultan Ahmed III, 1724; Bordeaux, Musee des Beaux Arts

Please read either Inalcik or Barkey.  Submit form by Sunday March 21;  Goffman, 192-234.

• Halil Inalcik , "The Ottoman Decline and its Effect Upon the Reaya," in Henrik Birnbaum and Speros Vryonis, Jr. (eds), Aspects of the Balkans: Continuity and Change . Study guide for Inalcik .
• Karen Barkey , "The Context of the Seventeenth Century," in her Bandits and Bureaucrats: The Ottoman Route to State Centralization. Study guide for Barkey .