Preface

CONQUEST AND ORGANIZATION

I Ottoman Methods of Conquest 104—129
II The Problem of the Relationship Between Byzantine and Ottoman Taxation 237-242
III The Conquest of Edirne (1361) 185—210
IV Land Problems in Turkish History 221-228
V The Turkish Impact on the Developmentof Modern Europe 51 _58
VI The Policy of Mehmed II Toward the Greek Population of Istanbul and the Byzantine Buildings of the City 231 —249
VII Suleiman the Lawgiver and Ottoman Law 105—138
VIII Ottoman Policy and Administration in Cyprus after the Conquest 5-23
IX Lepanto in the Ottoman Documents 185-192

ECONOMY

X The Ottoman Economic Mind and Aspects of the Ottoman Economy 207-218
XI Bursa and the Commerce of the Levant 131 — 147
XII Capital Formation in the Ottoman Empire 97-140
XIII The Ottoman Decline and Its Effects Upon the Reaya. 338—354
XIV The Socio-Political Effects of the Diffusion of Fire-Arms in the Middle East 195—217
XV The Nature of Traditional Society; Turkey 42—63
XVI Application of the Tanzimat and its Social Effects 3—33

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