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Charles Tilly on pre-modern state building:“States, State Transformation, and War,”in
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European States,AD 990 – 1992 , rev. pbk. edn. (Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell, 1992).
On the Ottoman empire: Barkey,Empire of Differenceand Cemal Kafadar,Between Two
Worlds: The Construction of the Ottoman State(Berkeley: University of California Press,
1995). On Mughals combining Mongol and Indian traditions: André Wink,“Post-
nomadic Empires: From the Mongols to the Mughals,”in Peter Bang and C. A. Bayly,
eds.,Tributary Empires in Global History(Oxford: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), 120– 31
and hisAkbar(Oxford: One World, 2009). On China: Timothy Brook,The Troubled
Empire: China in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties(Cambridge, Mass. and London: Belknap
Press, Harvard University Press, 2010).8 The Russian Empire 1450– 1801