Economic Life in Ottoman Europe: Taxation, Trade and the Struggle for Land, 1600-1800Cambridge University Press, 1981 - 226 Seiten Of the various monopolies exercised by the Ottoman ruling stratum in their long domination over South-eastern Europe, the most lasting in its effects was their monopoly over information. The scanty knowledge that outsiders had of this area improved only in the nineteenth century as, one after another, the Balkan nations regained independence and, with it, their identities. Well into the twentieth century, historians made do with very incomplete information about the period prior to the national revivals of the last century. The result was a tendency to offer disturbingly impoverished and flattened views of provincial life under Ottoman rule, inviting doctrinaire distortions of these eclipsed centuries. In this book, originally published in 1982, Bruce McGowan presents material concerning this neglected area. His painstaking study of Ottoman records provides convincing analyses of economic, fiscal and demographic questions fundamental to our understanding of the region. |
Inhalt
Ottoman exports to preindustrial Europe | 1 |
southeastern Europe during the seventeenth | 45 |
Head tax data for Ottoman Europe 17001815 | 80 |
the tax house avarız | 105 |
Chiftlik agriculture and fiscal practice in western Macedonia | 121 |
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