Population and Revenue in the Towns of Palestine in the Sixteenth Century
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1978. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Fine / Near Fine. Item #012559
Orig. maroon cloth. xi, 199 pp., 15 B&W plates. Dust jacket is sunned to spine, short tear to head of front cover, larger chip to head of rear cover, some bumping to extremities, sunning to flaps. Cohen and Lewis consider the numbers, composition and distribution of the Muslim, Christian and Jewish populations, and discuss the different headings of revenue, the manner of assessment and collection, the yield, and the destination of the money collected. This is the first monograph to trace these developments, in detail, over an extended period and for a significant area of the Ottoman Empire. Thus, it is the first of its kind not only for the history of Palestine but also for that of any Ottoman province. Based on the Tapu register 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.
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