Economic Life in Ottoman Europe: Taxation, trade and the struggle for land, 1600-1800

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Economic Life in Ottoman Europe: Taxation, trade and the struggle for land, 1600-1800
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Bruce McGowan
SeriesStudies in Modern Capitalism
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:240
Dimensions(mm): Height 229,Width 152
Category/GenreEconomics
Economic history
ISBN/Barcode 9780521135368
ClassificationsDewey:330.9496
Audience
Professional & Vocational
Illustrations Worked examples or Exercises

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 4 March 2010
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

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.