Taxing Difference
Empires as Spaces of Ordered Inequality
1st Edition
Published on 11. June 2020
Book
Hardback
248 pages
978-3-86110-752-1 (ISBN)
Description
The payment of tax and labor services formed the core of the relations between empires and their subjects as they significantly influence the income and labor force of all subjects. The articles in this volume discuss how imperial societies produced, organized and negotiated social differences between the subjugated populations by means of their tax systems. Therefore, the guiding question is: How did (early) modern imperial tax systems organize social difference and how were these differences negotiated in the imperial societies? Further, interrelated questions are: (1) How did the systematic classification of people issued through the tax system influence social categorizations such as ethnicity, class or gender? (2) How could the imperial subjects negotiate their categorization? What paths did they follow in this process of negotiation?
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Sarah Albiez-Wieck holds a PhD in Anthropology of the Americas and is Senior Researcher at the Department for Iberian and Latin American History at the University of Cologne as well as principal investigator at the Global South Studies Center and member of the executive board of the German Association of Research about Latin America (ADLAF). Her research interests include questions of migration and belonging, empires and colonialism, with a focus on colonial Mexico and Peru in a global context.
Content
THEMA: TAXING DIFFERENCE: EMPIRES AS SPACES OF ORDERED INEQUALITY: Sarah Albiez-Wieck: Introducing Taxing Difference. Empires as Spaces of Ordered Inequality --- Susana Münch Miranda, Chris Nierstrasz: Continuity and Change: Taxation in the Portuguese and Dutch Empires in Early Modern Asia --- Raquel Gil Montero, Sarah Albiez-Wieck: Putting Tribute into Perspective. Negotiating Colonial Obligations in Seventeenth Century Peru --- Henning Sievert: Zuordnung und Privilegien von osmanischen Untertanen im 18. Jahrhundert --- Elena Smolarz: Zwischen Integration und Segregation: Die Anwendung der imperialen Kategorie der Fremdstämmigen (inorodcy) auf die Steppennomaden im Russischen Reich im 18.-19. Jahrhundert --- Yaruipam Muivah: Tax Evasion and Avoidance by the Hill People in the North-East Frontier of India in the Early Colonial Period, c. 1880-1913 --- DIDAKTIK: Rouven Hallwaß: Mahatma Ghandi und der Boykott der Salzsteuer --- NACHRUF: Prof. Dr. em. Dietmar Rothermund (1933-2020) (von Tilman Frasch) --- REZENSIONEN: Maria Fritsche, Claudia Opitz-Belakhal, Inken Schmidt-Voges (Hg.), Innenräume - Außenräume, in: L'Homme. Europäische Zeitschrift für Feministische Geschichtswissenschaft, 30, 2, 2019 (Teresa Schröder-Stapper) --- Klaus Koschorke, Adrian Hermann, Frieder Ludwig, Ciprian Burlacioiu (Hg.), "To give publicity to our thoughts". Journale asiatischer und afrikanischer Christen um 1900 und die Entstehung einer transregionalen indigen-christlichen Öffentlichkeit (Studien zur Außereuropäischen Christentumsgeschichte) (Fabian Fechner) --- Pierre Clastres, Staatsfeinde. Studien zur politischen Anthropologie, Konstanz 2020 (Christoph Marx) --- Dietmar Rothermund, The Industrialization of India, Baden-Baden 2019 (Tilman Frasch) --- Alastair Gornall, Rewriting Buddhism. Pali Literature and Monastic Reform in Sri Lanka, 1157-1270, London 2020 (Tilman Frasch) --- Maria Dörnemann, Plan your Family - Plan your Nation. Bevölkerungspolitik als internationales Entwicklungshandeln in Kenia, 1932-1993, Berlin 2019 (Rita Schäfer) --- Mari K. Webel, The Politics of Disease Control: Sleeping Sickness in Eastern Africa, Athens 2019 (Nicole Wiederroth) --- Andreas Bohne, Bernd Hüttner, Anja Schade (Hg.): Apartheid No! Facetten von Solidarität in der DDR und BRD, Berlin 2019 (Rita Schäfer) --- Laura Evans, Survival in the Dumping Grounds. A Social History of Apartheid Relocation, Leiden 2019 (Rita Schäfer) --- Tycho van der Hoog, Breweries, Politics and Identity. The History Behind Namibian Beer, Basel 2019 (Henning Melber) --- AUTORINNEN UND AUTOREN