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Factors in the Decline of Ottoman Society in the Balkans

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4 This is the interpretation I emphasize in a paper on Balkan social structure, at present with the University of California Press.

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7 I have obtained the data for grain prices in Dubrovnik in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries from Tadić, Jorjo, “Organizacija dubrovacltog pomorstva u XVI veku,” Istoriski časopis, I, No. 1-2 (Belgrade, 1948), 9596 Google Scholar; for grain prices in Dubrovnik in the eighteenth century from Vinaver, Vuk, “Cene i nadnice u Dubrovniku XVIII veka,” Istoriski časopis, IX-X, 1959 (Belgrade, 1960), p. 323 Google Scholar; for wheat prices in Salonika from Svoronos, N. G., Le commerce de Salonique au XVIIIe siecle (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1956), pp. 8788 Google Scholar; for grain prices in Istanbul in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries from Hinz, Walther, “Lebensmittelpreise im mittelalterlichen Vorderen Orient,” Die Welt des Orients, II (Göttingen, 1954), 5270 Google Scholar; and for wheat prices in Istanbul in the eighteenth century from the Archives Nationales, Paris, Af. Etr. B1 407, June 2, 1733, and B1 448, April 23, 1789. For further details on price movements in Dubrovnik, Ljubljana, East Central Europe, and the Near East, see Hoszowski, Stanislas, “L'Europe centrale devant la révolution des prix: XVIe et XVIIe siècles,” Annates (Economies, SociétéS, Civilisations), XVI, No. 3 (May-June, 1961), 441-56Google Scholar, and Alfred Dieck, “Lebensmittelpreise in Mitteleuropa und im Vorderen Orient vom 12. bis 17. Jahrhundert,” Zeitschrift fur Agrargeschichte und Agrarsoziologie, III, No. 2 (Oct., 1955), 157-60.

8 1 have obtained the wage data from Hinz, “Lebensmittelpreise,” Welt des Orients, II, 70, and Mantran, Robert, “Règlements fiscaux ottomans: la police des marchés de Stamboul au début du XVIeme siècle,” Les Cahiers de Tunisie, IV, No. 2 (1956), 233 Google Scholar, for wages in Istanbul during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; Archives Nationales (Paris), Af. Etr. B1 438, Apr. 11, 1763, and B1 905, Apr. 27, 1774, for wages in Istanbul in the eighteenth century; and Vinaver, Vuk, “Monetarna kriza u Turskoj (1575-1650),” Istoriski glasnik (1958), No. 3-4, p. 147, n. 160Google Scholar, for wages in Dubrovnik during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and Vinaver, “Cene i nadnice,” Istoriski časopis, IX-X, 316-22, for wages in Dubrovnik during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Spatial limitations do not permit me to include a graphic presentation of the price and wage curves.

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12 Except for the emphasis on price inflation, the above interpretation is derived from Sabri F. Ülgener, İktisadî inhitat tarihimizin ahlâk ve zihniyet meseleleri (Moral Concepts and Mentality in the Economic Decline of the Ottoman Empire), “Publ. de la Faculté des Sciences Economiques,” No. 55 (Istanbul, 1951), as reviewed by Ömer Lûtfi Barkan, in Revue de la Faculteé des Sciences Économiques de I'Université d'Istanbul, XI (1949-50), 189-95.

13 Sabri F. Ülgener, “La morale des métiers depuis le XlVème siècle et les critiques qui leur ont été adressees,” ibid., XI, 59-66.

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17 On the çiftliḳ regime and maize cultivation, see Traian Stoianovich, “Land Tenure and Related Sectors of the Balkan Economy, 1600-1800,” Journal of Economic History, XIII (Fall, 1953), 398-411; for a further discussion of the diffusion of maize to the Balkans, see Stoianovich, Traian and Haupt, Georges C., “Le maiïs arrive dans les Balkans,” Annales (Economies, Sociétés, Civilisations), XVII, No. 1 (Jan.-Feb., 1962), 8493 Google Scholar.

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20 Ömer Lûtfi Barkan, “Les Déportations comme méthode de peuplement et de colonisation dans 1'Empire ottoman,” Revue de la Faculté des Sciences Èconomiques de I'Université d'Istanbul, XI (1949-50), 128, 131.

21 In any event, this was apparently true in Serbia. Popović, Cf. D. J., O hajducima (Belgrade: Narodna Štamparija, 1930-31), II, 129.Google Scholar

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