Taxes, efficiency, and redistribution: Discriminatory taxation of villages in Ottoman Palestine, Southern Syria, and Transjordan in the sixteenth century

Explorations in Economic History

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 332-356

  Coşgel, Metin M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Discriminatory rates; Efficiency; Ottoman Empire; Palestine; Redistribution; Syria; Taxes; Transjordan

Indexed keywords

EID: 33644746163     PISSN: 00144983     EISSN: 10902457     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eeh.2004.06.006     Document Type: Article

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