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The first group of studies in this volume tackles the controversial question of the nature of the Ottoman landholding system and the extent to which large estates, the A iftlik, emerged as a reaction to the increasing Western European demand for Ottoman agricultural produce. The following section turns to military history, a subject well documented in the archives from which Gilles Veinstein has drawn the material for his research, and not surprisingly, given that one of the main tasks of the Ottoman state was that of making war. His concern, however, is not directly with the battles, but...