ABSTRACT
Classical Marxism, though not in possession of a fully evolved and complete, coherent theory of Feudalism, had nevertheless been quite wary of various misconceptions. The German historical school, again in Edmund Fryde's succinct phrasing, prided itself on the scientific precision of its methods, on its determination to get all the details right, and on the scrupulous quotation of sources. The dead ends of a historiography heavily impregnated with nineteenth century positivism are arousing violent reactions today, often stimulating, but sometimes victims of speculative idealism. Kprl had been a liberal-nationalist; as a typical statist nationalist of the One Party and National Leader periods, it was mer Ltf Barkan who became the architect of this transformation. In the West Barkan is better known for his exploration of for the study of Mediterranean-wide price and population movements, for which reason he is sometimes taken as the Annales school's Turkish representative par excellence.
