Revenue Raising and Legitimacy : Tax Collection and Finance Administration in the Ottoman Empire, 1560–1660
Linda T. Darling
This study examines for the first time the finance procedures and documents of the post-classical Ottoman Empire. It provides an overview of institutional and monetary history and a detailed description of assessment and collection processes for "Cizye, Avariz" and "Iltizam"-collected taxes, the documents produced by these processes, and the information they contain. The finance department's detailed record-keeping, procedural continuity, and provision of economic justice made it a bulwark of stability in a period of turmoil. For specialists, this book introduces a multitude of sources on the economic and social history of the post-classical age, while for comparativists it places the empire in its seventeenth-century context. It links Ottoman administrative change with early modern state formation and reformulates the seventeenth century as a period of consolidation, not decline.
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Année:
1996
Editeur::
Brill
Langue:
english
Pages:
368
ISBN 10:
9004102892
ISBN 13:
9789004102897
Collection:
The Ottoman Empire and Its Heritage 6
Fichier:
PDF, 41.35 MB
IPFS:
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english, 1996