State and Peasant in the Ottoman Empire

Agrarian Power Relations and Regional Economic Development in Ottoman Anatolia During the Sixteenth Century
Erscheinungsjahr 1994
ISBN: 978-90-04-10028-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 294 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 698 g

Reihe: The Ottoman Empire and its Heritage

State and Peasant in the Ottoman Empire studies the dynamics of Ottoman peasant economy in the sixteenth century. First, it shows that contrary to the conventional wisdom about the 'stationariness'of the Asian agrarian economies, Ottoman peasant economy witnessed substantial growth in response to population increase, urban commercial expansion and to increased taxation demands. Second, the book argues that economic development did not take place independently of political structures, of the state. This meant that in the light of the fiscal and legitimation concerns of the Ottoman state and contrary to the assumptions of the models of economic development, changes in population and in commercial demand did not result in the disruption of the integrity of the small peasant holding as the primary unit of production. The book develops these arguments in the context of a detailed empirical study of the economic trends, of the state rules or institutions that embodied the relations of revenue extraction, and of exchange in Ottoman Anatolia.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Islamoglu - Inan, Huri

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Geschichte der VWL
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Huri Islamoglu-Inan studied Economics and History at the Universities of Chicago and Wisconsin, Madison. She has taught at the University of California at Berkeley and at Santa Cruz. At present she is professor of Economic History at the Middle East Technical University, Ankara. Her publications include an edited volume The Ottoman Empire and the World Economy (1987) and articles published in English, French, German and Turkish on the economic history of the Ottoman empire and on theoretical issues relating to socio-economic change in pre-capitalist societies.