Accumulating Power: Capitalism, Belonging, and the Late Ottoman Order

Accumulating Power offers a new way of thinking about belonging, sovereignty, and empire—and how the meanings of being "Ottoman" changed with the intersection of capitalism and imperial reform. Ottoman subjecthood and loyalty transformed around the turn of the twentieth century with the emergence of an international system and intensification of commodity production. Imperial belonging was conditioned by new discourses around community, increasing material conflict, and the new tools, forms...