Choon Hwee Koh
Biographic Data
| ID | 376457 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Choon Hwee Koh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Choon Hwee |
| FAMILY NAME | Koh |
| SIGNATURE | KOH C H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6692-0297 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Quandary of Proliferating Intermediaries: Ottoman State Formation Beyond the De/Centralization Impasse
Is Meta a more decentralized organization today than twenty years ago, when it was known as “Thefacebook”? Its CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, certainly delegates a wider range of tasks to a wider range of intermediaries in 2024 compared to 2004. But Meta is also a far larger company today. Two decades ago, it was a small start-up; today, it is a multinational, publicly listed company. Given this organizational transformation, it would be odd to describe M…
The Mystery of the Missing Horses: How to Uncover an Ottoman Shadow Economy
In the 1690s, Ottoman bureaucrats reformed the sprawling postal system, a vital communications infrastructure that undergirded imperial power. Despite the expanding monitoring capacity that resulted, a constant shortage of horses regularly left couriers stranded for days and delayed official correspondence. This essay investigates this paradox and draws on a series of fifty-one Ottoman imperial decrees and reports from 1690 to 1833 to make three …
The Ottoman Postmaster: Contractors, Communication and Early Modern State Formation
Prevailing historiography views the use of contractors by states as indicative of a loss or decentralization of power. This article takes the case of the Ottoman postmaster to demonstrate how contracting could in fact strengthen early modern empires and to argue that the binary spatial metaphors of 'centralization' and 'decentralization' cannot adequately explain how power worked in the early modern world (about 1500-1800). Indeed, recent scholar…
The Quandary of Proliferating Intermediaries: Ottoman State Formation Beyond the De/Centralization Impasse
Is Meta a more decentralized organization today than twenty years ago, when it was known as “Thefacebook”? Its CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, certainly delegates a wider range of tasks to a wider range of intermediaries in 2024 compared to 2004. But Meta is also a far larger company today. Two decades ago, it was a small start-up; today, it is a multinational, publicly listed company. Given this organizational transformation, it would be odd to describe M…
The Mystery of the Missing Horses: How to Uncover an Ottoman Shadow Economy
In the 1690s, Ottoman bureaucrats reformed the sprawling postal system, a vital communications infrastructure that undergirded imperial power. Despite the expanding monitoring capacity that resulted, a constant shortage of horses regularly left couriers stranded for days and delayed official correspondence. This essay investigates this paradox and draws on a series of fifty-one Ottoman imperial decrees and reports from 1690 to 1833 to make three …
The Ottoman Postmaster: Contractors, Communication and Early Modern State Formation
Prevailing historiography views the use of contractors by states as indicative of a loss or decentralization of power. This article takes the case of the Ottoman postmaster to demonstrate how contracting could in fact strengthen early modern empires and to argue that the binary spatial metaphors of 'centralization' and 'decentralization' cannot adequately explain how power worked in the early modern world (about 1500-1800). Indeed, recent scholar…
The Ottoman Postmaster: Contractors, Communication and Early Modern State Formation
Prevailing historiography views the use of contractors by states as indicative of a loss or decentralization of power. This article takes the case of the Ottoman postmaster to demonstrate how contracting could in fact strengthen early modern empires and to argue that the binary spatial metaphors of 'centralization' and 'decentralization' cannot adequately explain how power worked in the early modern world (about 1500-1800). Indeed, recent scholar…
The Mystery of the Missing Horses: How to Uncover an Ottoman Shadow Economy
In the 1690s, Ottoman bureaucrats reformed the sprawling postal system, a vital communications infrastructure that undergirded imperial power. Despite the expanding monitoring capacity that resulted, a constant shortage of horses regularly left couriers stranded for days and delayed official correspondence. This essay investigates this paradox and draws on a series of fifty-one Ottoman imperial decrees and reports from 1690 to 1833 to make three …
The Quandary of Proliferating Intermediaries: Ottoman State Formation Beyond the De/Centralization Impasse
Is Meta a more decentralized organization today than twenty years ago, when it was known as “Thefacebook”? Its CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, certainly delegates a wider range of tasks to a wider range of intermediaries in 2024 compared to 2004. But Meta is also a far larger company today. Two decades ago, it was a small start-up; today, it is a multinational, publicly listed company. Given this organizational transformation, it would be odd to describe M…
Economics (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Economy (2 works) · Historical Economic and Social Studies (2 works) · Islamic Studies and History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (1 works) · Bureaucracy (1 works) · Business (1 works) · Capitalism (1 works)