Revenue-Raising and Legitimacy
Tax Collection and Finance Administration in the Ottoman Empire, 1560-1660
Biographical note
Linda T. Darling, Ph.D. (1990) in History, University of Chicago, is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Arizona. She has published articles on the Ottoman fiscal system and finance documents.
Readership
Specialists and students of Ottoman economic and political history and the early modern Middle East, and historians of early modern Europe for imperial administration.
Reviews
'...zeigt das Buch von Darling die Komplexität der Problematik deutlich auf und bietet nicht nur die Darstellung des vorhandenen Wissens über einige Aspekte des damaligen Finanzsystems, sondern stellt auch zahlreiche bislang ungenügend behandelte Fragestellungen für künftige Forschungen zusammen.'
Ariba Romovic, Súdost-Forschungen, 1998.
'...a book that sillfully details and maps the labyrinth of Ottoman revenu-raising system. The author's command of archival material is intelligently supported by a reading of a wide-ranging secondary source base.'
Faruk Tabak, New Perspectives on Turkey, 1996.
'...the contribution of Linda Darling to a better knowledge of Ottoman history is impressive and will have to be taken into account by all further research.'
Bogdan Murgescu, Journal of South-East European Studies, 1997.
Ariba Romovic, Súdost-Forschungen, 1998.
'...a book that sillfully details and maps the labyrinth of Ottoman revenu-raising system. The author's command of archival material is intelligently supported by a reading of a wide-ranging secondary source base.'
Faruk Tabak, New Perspectives on Turkey, 1996.
'...the contribution of Linda Darling to a better knowledge of Ottoman history is impressive and will have to be taken into account by all further research.'
Bogdan Murgescu, Journal of South-East European Studies, 1997.
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