State and Peasant in the Ottoman Empire : : Agrarian Power Relations and Regional Economic Development in Ottoman Anatolia during the Sixteenth Century / / Huri Islamoglu - Inan.

• Superior document: Middle East and Islamic Studies - Book Archive pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Islamoglu - Inan, Huri,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 1994.; ©1994
• Year of Publication: 1994
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Middle East and Islamic Studies - Book Archive pre-2000.; The Ottoman Empire and its Heritage ; 1.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (311 pages)
• Other title: Agrarian Power Relations and Regional Economic Development in Ottoman Anatolia during the Sixteenth Century; Preliminary Material /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004660836
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Huri Islamoglu - Inan.

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.