Ali Yaycioglu, Partners of the Empire: The Crisis of the Ottoman Order in the Age of Revolutions (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2016)

Adam Mestyan researches and teaches the history of empire and subordinated states in the Arabic-speaking world, with a new focus on agriculture. Currently, he is undertaking research for his third monograph, a history of fiscal sovereignty in modern Egypt and Syria. He is interested in all aspects of global agricultural history, including agrarian shari'a, envirotechnical bureaucracy, urban agriculture, food processing chains, and war.His previous works in cultural and politi