Regional variation in the distribution of property rights over land in sixteenth-century Ottoman rural Manisa
- Pinar Ceylan
- © 2020 Author(s) |
- CC BY 4.0
- DOI: 10.36253/978-88-5518-053-5.23
Concentrating on the Western Anatolian district of Manisa and employing tax surveys dating 1575, this study points to the regional variation in property rights institutions, which resulted in different inequality regimes across space. Empirical evidence suggests the existence of two agricultural production systems characterized by different property and surplus relations, in the southern and northern parts of the district in the late sixteenth century. Accordingly, inequality structures in these areas reflected region-specific patterns of property rights distribution within and across direct producers and landlords’ classes.
- Keywords:
- economic inequality,
- economic history,
- ottoman state,
- Manisa,
- pre-industrial age,
Ghent University, Belgium - ORCID: 0000-0003-2780-7325
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Chapter Information
Chapter Title
Regional variation in the distribution of property rights over land in sixteenth-century Ottoman rural Manisa
Authors
Pinar Ceylan
Language
English
DOI
10.36253/978-88-5518-053-5.23
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Publication Year
2020
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Book Title
Disuguaglianza economica nelle società preindustriali: cause ed effetti / Economic inequality in pre-industrial societies: causes and effect
Editors
Giampiero Nigro
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
488
Publication Year
2020
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© 2020 Author(s)
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Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/978-88-5518-053-5
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978-88-5518-052-8
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978-88-5518-053-5
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978-88-5518-054-2
Series Title
Datini Studies in Economic History
Series ISSN
2975-1241
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2975-1195