The Ottoman experience.

From: Daedalus | Date: March 22, 2005| Author: | Copyright information 
 
  When those states which have been acquired are accustomed to live at 
  liberty under their own laws, there are three ways of holding them. 
  The first is to despoil them; the second is to go and live there in 
  person; the third is to allow them to live under their own laws, 
  taking tribute of them and creating within the country a government 
  composed of a few who will keep it friendly to you. 
  --Machiavelli, The Prince, 1532

Toward the end of the fifteenth century, an Ottoman scribe named Bali was charged with surveying the newly acquired island of Limnos in the ...

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