Revenue-raising and legitimacy : tax collection and finance administration in the Ottoman Empire, 1560-1660

• Autore: Darling Linda T
• Pubblicazione: [Place of publication not identified], : E J Brill, 1996
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xii, 368 p. ;)
• Disciplina: 336.2/009561
• Soggetto topico: Taxation - History - Turkey; Tax collection - History - Turkey; Tax administration and procedure - History - Turkey; Political Science; Law, Politics & Government; Public Finance
• Soggetto geografico: Turkey Economic conditions
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-352) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- Transliteration and the Turkish Alphabet -- Identification of Archival Sources -- Introduction: The Myth of Decline -- The Myth of Ottoman Decline -- Crisis and the Ottoman State -- Sources for the Study of the Post-Classical Age -- I. Classical Ottoman Finance -- Ottoman Taxation -- Revenue Assessment by Survey (Tahrir) -- The Monetary System and the Price Revolution -- Population and Economic Change -- II. The Ottoman Central Finance Department -- Early Finance Department Organization -- Reorganizations in the Finance Structure -- The Seventeenth Century and Beyond -- III. Revenue Assessment by the Central Finance Department: Cizye and Avariz -- Revenue Surveying by the Finance Bureaus -- Registration of Taxpayers and Population Estimation -- Amounts of Money Taken in Tax -- IV. Taxation Without Assessment? Tax Farming (İltizam) -- Mukataa Revenues and Records -- Bidding and Revenue Amounts -- Bidders' Conditions and Personnel Recruitment -- İltizam Supervision -- V. Tax Collection Personnel -- Appointment of Revenue Collectors -- The Military in Cizye and Avariz Collection -- The Military in Tax Farming -- VI. Tax Collection, Remittance, and Reporting -- Collection Procedures: Cizye and Avariz -- İltizam Collection -- Remittance and Reporting -- VII. Arrears, Accounting, and Balance-Sheets -- Collectors' Accounts (Muhasebe) -- Arrears and their Collection -- Central Accounting Procedures -- Balance-Sheets and Budgets -- VIII. Complaints and Corruption -- The Petition Process -- Changing the Assessment -- Corruption in Tax Collection -- IX. Revenue-Raising and Legitimacy -- Revenue and Legitimacy: The Circle of Justice -- Revenue-Raising and Decline -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: This groundbreaking study of finance procedures and documents for the Ottoman Empire's post-classical age introduces sources for economic and social history, provides comparisons with other early modern European states and revises the concept of Ottoman decline.
• Altri titoli varianti: Revenue-Raising and Legitimacy
• Titolo autorizzato: Revenue-Raising and legitimacy
• ISBN: 90-04-66104-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996248291303316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: Ottoman Empire and its heritage ; ; v. 6. . 1380-6076