A major contribution to Ottoman history, now published in paperback in two volumes.

List of maps; List of figures; List of tables; Genealogy of the Ottoman dynasty; Chronology of Ottoman history, 1260¿1923; Preface; List of abbreviations; General maps; General introduction Halil Inalcik and Donald Quataert; Part I: The Ottoman State: Economy and Society, 1300¿1600 Halil Inalcik; Introduction; A. The economic mind; B. State revenues and expenditures: 1. Sources of revenue; 2. The state treasury and budgets; C. State, land and peasant: 3. State-owned lands (miri); 4. Land possession outside the miri system; 5. Land surveying; 6. The çift-hane system: the organization of Ottoman rural society; 7. Settlements; D. Trade: 8. Istanbul and the imperial economy; 9. International trade: general conditions; 10. Bursa and the silk trade; 11. Dubrovnik and the Balkans; 12. The Black Sea and Eastern Europe; 13. The India trade; 14. Northerners in the Mediterranean; Bibliography; List of weights and measures; Glossary; Index.