Bernard Lewis, Amnon Cohen

Broschiertes Buch

Population and Revenue in the Towns of Palestine in the Sixteenth Century

Beschreibung

Surveying the population and revenue of six Palestinian cities-Jerusalem, Hebron, Gaza, Ramie, Nabulus, and Safed-in the sixteenth-century, Amnon Cohen and Bernard Lewis consider the numbers, composition, and distribution of the Muslim, Christian, and Jewish population, and discuss the different headings of revenue, the manner of assessment and collection, the yield, and the destination of the money collected. This monograph traces these developments, in detail, over an extended period and for a significant area of the Ottoman Empire. Based on the Tapu registers in Istanbul and Ankara, this book provides to the academic world a collection and analysis of documents previously unavailable and unreadable except to a very small number of people. Translations and annotations of these texts illuminate and explain the terms and institutions found in Ottoman surveys of population and taxation. Professors Cohen and Lewis establish the fact that in the cities of Palestine, population and revenue showed a rather spectacular parallel development towards the middle of the sixteenth-century when the disruptive conditions of the conquest had disappeared and Ottoman administration had been well established. Then, in the latter half of the century, they find a recession again. Originally published in 1978. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Autor

Bernard Lewis, Cleveland E. Dodge Professor Emeritus of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University, is the author of over twenty books, including The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror; What Went Wrong?; The Muslim Discovery of Europe; and The Emergence of Modern Turkey. He is the editor of The Land of Enchanters: Egyptian Short Stories from Ancient Times to the Present.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. März 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 357g
• ISBN-13: 9780691602837
• ISBN-10: 0691602832
• Artikelnr.: 42318354