| A Nation of Empire |
| Preface |
| Acknowledgments |
 | Explanations |
| • | Pronunciation |
| • | Dates |
| • | Old and New Place Names |
| • | Personal Names in the District of Of |
| • | References to Locales and Their Inhabitants |
| • | English Versions of Turkish and Ottoman Terms |
| • | Photographs |
| • | Notes |
| Part I: Aghas and Hodjas |
| 1. Amnesia |
| • | A First Account of Arrival and Discovery |
| • | A Social System Divided from the State System |
| • | The Ethnographic Analysis of a Clan-Society |
| The Clan-Society Belongs to the Past, Not the Present |
| • | Aghas and Clans |
| • | The "Five" and "Twenty-Five" Parties |
| • | Mansions |
| • | Aghas Create Clans, Clans Do Not Create Aghas |
| • | A Regional Social Oligarchy of the Post-Classical Empire |
| • | A Second Channel of Imperial Participation |
| • | Notes |
| 2. Prohibition |
| • | A Second Account of Arrival and Discovery |
| • | Society Conforms To Islamic Belief and Practice |
| • | Local Elites Conform to Islamic Belief and Practice |
| • | The Hodjas From Of |
| • | Professors, Academies, and Students |
| • | The Underground Tradition of Religious Study |
| • | Official Islam As Social Islam |
| • | Conclusion |
| • | Notes |
| Part II: The Dissemination of An Imperial Modernity |
| 3. Horizons |
| • | Topography and Environment |
| • | Ethnic Fragments and Linguistic Archaisms |
| • | Society and State in the Pontic Enclave |
| • | Economic Flexibility and Elasticity |
| • | Ottomanization of Trabzonlus, Trabzonization of the Ottomans |
| • | A State Society Before Contemporary Modernity |
| • | Notes |
| 4. Empire |
| • | The Problem |
| • | Ottoman Centralism and Exclusivity |
| • | Ottoman Incorporation of Trabzon |
| The Palace Complex: A Device of Sovereign Association |
| • | The Palace Machine |
| • | An Omnipresent Personal Oversight |
| • | A Spectacle of Interpersonal Association |
| • | The Dynastic Court Tradition |
| • | An Uncanny Discipline |
| • | The Palace as Panopticon |
| • | Disarticulation, Distribution, and Rearticulation |
| • | The Inner Gate and Petition Room |
| • | The Middle Gate and Middle Court |
| • | The Never-Ending Banquet |
| • | The Mosque Complex: A Device of Official Islam |
| • | State System and State Society |
| • | The Period of Decentralization in the Province of Trabzon |
| • | Notes |
| 5. Dissemination |
| • | Ethnic Diversity and Imperial Homogeneity |
| • | Two Valley-Systems |
| • | Documenting Immigration and Conversion in Of |
| • | Documenting Imperial Participation in Trabzon |
| • | Documenting the Origins of Aghas and Konaks in Of |
| • | Documenting the Aghas and Family lines in Trabzon |
| • | Conclusion |
| • | Notes |
| Part III: The Old State Society and the New State System |
| 6. A State Society |
| • | A Tiered State Society |
| • | Citizen Beauchamp and the Provincial Capital |
| • | The Structure of Political Authority in the Capital |
| • | Citizen Beauchamp and the Coastal Districts |
| • | The Structure of Political Authority in the Coastal Districts |
| • | A single Government of State Officials and Local Elites |
| State Officials and Local Elites |
| • | Memiş Agha Tuzcuoğlu and the Regional Elite |
| • | Süleyman Pasha Hazinedaroğlu and the Imperial Elite |
| • | The Contrast between the Imperial and Regional Elite |
| • | Osman Agha Şatııroğlu and the Local Elites of the Central Districts |
| • | Notes |
| 7. Blindness |
| • | Consuls Theorize the State Society of Trabzon |
| • | Fourcade's Theory of Two Governmental Systems |
| • | Fontanier Experiences An Unacceptable Sociability |
| • | The End of the Period of Decentralization |
| • | Consul Fontanier Anticipates the Future Imperfectly |
| • | Notes |
| 8. Scandal |
| • | Citizens, Newspapers, and Misgovernment |
| • | Biliotti's Reports on the Western Coastal Districts |
| • | Biliotti's Awareness of a Structure of Misgovernment |
| • | Biliotti's Reports on the Eastern Districts |
| • | The Scandal of Christians who were Muslims |
| • | The Learned Class from the Eastern Districts |
| • | Memoirs of Günday |
| • | Notes |
| Part IV: Old Modernity and New Modernity |
| 9. Revolution |
| • | National Public Culture and Imperial Public Culture |
| • | The Battle for Of |
| • | Hodjas as the Founders of the Nation |
| • | Aghas as Founders of the Nation |
| • | Amnesia and Prohibition |
| • | The Deposition of Ferhat Agha |
| • | The Selimoğlu Family Line During the Early Republic |
| • | Official Principle and Official Practice |
| • | Notes |
| 10. Democracy |
| • | The Transition From the One-Party to the Multiparty Regime |
| • | Rivalries among the Family Line |
| • | Mehmet Bey and the Descendants of Ferhat Agha in the Elections of 1946 |
| • | The Resurgence of the Old Republic in the Elections of 1950 |
| • | Elites of the Old Republic and Elites of the New Republic |
| • | The Old Republic Inhabits the New Republic |
| • | Notes |
| 11. Civil Society |
| • | Coffeehouses: Forums of Public Life |
| • | Hierarchy and Coffeehouses |
| • | Coffeehouses of the New Versus the Old Republic |
| • | Three Grandsons of Ferhat Agha in the Multiparty Period |
| • | The Town Square Coffeehouse and Teas Producers' Cooperative |
| • | The Of Tea Producers' Assistance Cooperative |
| • | The Revolt of the Membership |
| • | Reconfiguring the Old Republic in the New Republic |
| • | Notes |
| 12. The City |
| • | Liberation Day: the Turkishnation in the District of Of |
| • | Oflus Come To the City |
| • | The City Comes To Of |
| • | The portrait of Mayors in the Municipal Building |
| • | The Imperial Great Mosque in the Town of Of |
| • | Epilogue |
| • | Notes |
| References |
| • | Manuscripts |
| • | Archival Sources |
| • | Publications |
