Lecture:(Re)Thinking Ottoman Provincial History Taxation and Politics at the Margins of an Empire
Hagop Kevorkian Center 255 Sullivan Street, New York CityOttoman economic historians often subscribed to a narrative which pictures the nineteenth century history as unfolding through a conflict over taxable resources between central political elite and provincial power-holders. In this paper I aim to provide a critique of this approach and find alternative ways of interpreting post-Tanzimat fiscal history. As an alternative to this dichotomous conception of center vs…