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Revenue-raising and legitimacy: tax collection and finance administration in the Ottoman Empire, 1560-1660
Linda T. Darling
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Frontmatter (page i)
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List of Tables (page ix)
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Preface (page xi)
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List of Abbreviations (page xiii)
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Transliteration and the Turkish Alphabet (page xiv)
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Identification of Archival Sources (page xv)
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Introduction: The Myth of Decline (page 1)
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The Myth of Ottoman Decline (page 2)
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Crisis and the Ottoman State (page 8)
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Sources for the Study of the Post-Classical Age (page 16)
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I. Classical Ottoman Finance (page 22)
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Ottoman Taxation (page 22)
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Revenue Assessment by Survey (Tahrir) (page 29)
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The Monetary System and the Price Revolution (page 35)
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Population and Economic Change (page 41)
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II. The Ottoman Central Finance Department (page 49)
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Early Finance Department Organization (page 51)
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Reorganizations in the Finance Structure (page 57)
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The Seventeenth Century and Beyond (page 67)
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III. Revenue Assessment by the Central Finance Department: Cizye and Avariz (page 81)
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Revenue Surveying by the Finance Bureaus (page 82)
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Registration of Taxpayers and Population Estimation (page 100)
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Amounts of Money Taken in Tax (page 108)
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IV. Taxation Without Assessment? Tax Farming (İltizam) (page 119)
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Mukataa Revenues and Records (page 123)
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Bidding and Revenue Amounts (page 136)
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Bidders' Conditions and Personnel Recruitment (page 146)
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İltizam Supervision (page 152)
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V. Tax Collection Personnel (page 161)
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Appointment of Revenue Collectors (page 161)
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The Military in Cizye and Avariz Collection (page 169)
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The Military in Tax Farming (page 178)
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VI. Tax Collection, Remittance, and Reporting (page 186)
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Collection Procedures: Cizye and Avariz (page 187)
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İltizam Collection (page 194)
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Remittance and Reporting (page 203)
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VII. Arrears, Accounting, and Balance-Sheets (page 213)
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Collector's Accounts (Muhasebe) (page 213)
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Arrears and their Collection (page 222)
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Central Accounting Procedures (page 231)
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Balance-Sheets and Budgets (page 237)
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VIII. Complaints and Corruption (page 246)
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The Petition Process (page 248)
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Changing the Assessment (page 260)
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Corruption in Tax Collection (page 267)
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IX. Revenue-Raising and Legitimacy (page 281)
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Revenue and Legitimacy: The Circle of Justice (page 283)
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Revenue-Raising and Decline (page 299)
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Glossary (page 307)
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Bibliography (page 325)
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Index (page 353)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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JNES | 59.2 (Apr. 2000): 156-157 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/545638 |
Citable Link
Published: 1996
Publisher: Brill
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