Tax Administration in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire
Ottoman History Podcast
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The Importance of Studying the Middle East
Aha: I was deciding to go back to graduate school because I couldn't get a decent job in the 70s. She says her grandmother grew up in what's now Lebanon, during the late Ottoman period. "I thought if you could get the internal correspondence of the finance department, you could figure out what they were doing," she says. Aha: There's so many possible things that you can find when you go, but it's the key discovery that sets you in a revolutionized way.
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