Economic Life in Ottoman Europe: Taxation, Trade and the Struggle for Land, 1600-1800 Tapa dura - 1982

Cambridge University Press, 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/Good. Good, clean, tight and sound copy. Publisher's cloth with faded patches. Dust jacket good, slightly faded on spine. xii + 228 pages, diags., maps, index. Approx. size 9" by 6". Quantity Available: 1. Category: History; ISBN: 0521242088. ISBN/EAN: 9780521242080. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 25762. . 9780521242080

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981. 1st Edition . Dust jacket. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Original bdg. Dust wrapper. Demy 8vo. (22 x 15 cm). In English. [xii], 226 p. Studies in modern capitalism = Etudes sur le capitalisme moderne. Of the various monopolies exercised by the Ottoman ruling stratum in their long domination over South-eastern Europe, the most lasting in its effects was their monopoly over information. The scanty knowledge that outsiders had of this area improved only in the nineteenth century as, one after another, the Balkan nations regained independence and, with it, their identities. Well into the twentieth century, historians made do with very incomplete information about the period prior to the national revivals of the last century. The result was a tendency to offer disturbingly impoverished and flattened views of provincial life under Ottoman rule, inviting doctrinaire distortions of these eclipsed centuries. In this book, originally… Leer más

Cambridge University Press, 1981. Hard cover. Good/Good. Jacket spine is sunned, but legibility is not impacted. Bottom of jacket spine has residue from previous seller's price sticker. Jacket is worn, especially along edges. Upper jacket edge is torn. Bottom of front jacket flap has residue from previous seller's price sticker. Inside jacket edges are tanned. Spine is cracked but secure. Spine edges are bumped. Cover edges are slightly worn. Front free end paper has library stamp. Inside is unmarked.

Cambridge, Etc.: Cambridge University Press; Paris, Editions de la Masion des Sciences de l'Homme, 1981. xii, 226p., maps, dj (Studies in modern capitalism; Etudes sur le capitalisme moderne).

Cambridge University Press. hardcover. Good. 6x1x9. Hardcover in unclipped jacket. Slight tear on the jacket.