Ottoman land reform in the province of Baghdad
By: by Keiko Kiyotaki
Series: The Ottoman Empire and its heritage : politics, society and economy -- volume 66; Ottoman Empire and its heritage -- v. 66.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 323
ISBN-13: 9789004366596; 9789004384347
Subjects: Land reform; History; Farming of Taxes; Land tenure; Relations; International relations
Description: "In Ottoman Land Reform in the Province of Baghdad, Keiko Kiyotaki traces the Ottoman reforms of tax farming and land tenure and establishes that their effects were the key ingredients of agricultural progress. These modernizing reforms are shown to be effective because they were compatible with local customs and tribal traditions, which the Ottoman governors worked to preserve. Ottoman rule in Iraq has previously been considered oppressive and blamed with failure to develop the country. Since the British mandate government's land and tax policies were little examined, the Ottoman legacy has been left unidentified. This book proves that Ottoman land reforms led to increases in agricultural production and tax revenue, while the hasty reforms enacted by the mandate government ignoring indigenous customs caused new agricultural and land problems"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 304-318) and index.
Table of contents: title: The province of Baghdad; title: Agriculture; title: Tax farming and public finance; title: Land problems; title: Land reform; title: Modifications of the land and tax systems; title: Land and tax systems during the British occupation and mandate period; title: The decline of the Ottoman legacy.