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Showing 1 to 20 of 216 for “"Ottoman"”.
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The Ottoman Press, 1908-1923
This thesis examines the Ottoman press, in particular the Turkish language press in Istanbul, between the declaration of the second constitutional period in 1908 and the establishment of the Turkish Republic in 1923. After contextualizing the Ottoman press by looking at its history leading up to …
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The architecture of bibliophilia : eighteenth-century Ottoman libraries
Libraries were a new building type of Ottoman architecture by the beginning of the eighteenth century. However, they quickly gained a considerable place among the endowments of Ottoman elites and remained one of the most carefully approached architectural questions throughout the century. More than …
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Families-in-Arms: Kinship Networks of Arab Ottoman Army Officers from the Late Ottoman Empire to Postwar Syria and Iraq (1885-1932)
… state that occurred in what had been part of the Ottoman Empire for four centuries and is now known as the Middle East, and more specifically, Syria and Iraq. This study begins in the 1880s, with the birth of many of the individuals who served as officers and bureaucrats in the Ottoman military …
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Mahmud II and Ottoman diplomacy in the context of the Mehmed Ali Problem (1832-‐1839) : with special reference to the Ottoman archives in İstanbul
… diplomatic relationship between Britain and the Ottoman Empire underwent a radical change. The starting point for this transformation came when the army of the Ottoman Sultan Mahmud II, suffered two consecutive heavy defeats at the hands of that of his rebel governor, Mehmed Ali Pasha; the first …
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Psychonalysis, Fantasy, Postcoloniality: Derivative Nationalism and Historiography in Post-Ottoman Turkey
… than in the recently flourishing literature on Ottoman religious-ethnic communities in Turkey, wherein Ottoman rule, particularly the Millet System of the 15th -17th centuries, is romanticized by Turkish nativist historiographers as a perfect model of peaceful coexistence distinguished by …
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The Ottoman Empire in the first world war: A rational disaster
<p>The Ottoman Empire's entry into the First World War in October 1914 represents a break in over a century of diplomacy in the Middle East. Previous study of late Ottoman politics has focused more upon the European states with imperial interests in the Middle East and has not adequately explained …
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Ottoman Empire's role in the emergence of the "European" world system
… revisions opened up possibilities to include the Ottoman Empire in the world system. The categories that were created by Immanuel Wallerstein to depict the world system, such as core, semi-periphery, periphery countries, and hegemonic states, suggest that a major actor in the system is left out. I …
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Conflict and Cooperation: Western Economic Interests in Ottoman Iraq 1894-1914
… in order to discuss certain aspects of late Ottoman history in Baghdad and Basra, between 1894 and 1914. Since these sources have been underutilized, their inclusion will widen the scope of possible historical investigation in the study of Late Ottoman Baghdad and Basra. This research will …
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Tracking Technology and Society along the Ottoman Anatolian Railroad, 1890-1914
The construction of the Ottoman Anatolian Railroad, along with its extension, the Baghdad Railroad, is often considered a case of foreign-driven modernization and pseudo-colonial investment in the Ottoman Empire and is assigned primary importance as a diplomatic problem aggravating tensions between …
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The development of Islamicate spaces in the Ottoman Balkans (1450-1600)
The student, Agata Chmiel, accepted the attached license on 2021-12-02 at 16:30.
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Fugitivity and Carceral Humanitarianism in the Ottoman Mediterranean, c. 1876-1916
This thesis explores the evolution of Ottoman humanitarianism as a legal, moral, and political enterprise. It is a critical inquiry into the rhetoric of humanity: how it shapes law and the jurisdiction thereof. Building on the settlement of immigrants – *Muhajirs* – in the Ottoman Mediterranean …
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English literature on the Ottoman Turks in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
… a large and complex English literature on the Ottoman Turks developed, characterised by its diversity in form, content, opinion and context. This was a literature in the sense of a large body of texts sharing a topic, written in a similar time and place and in similar context, but also in the …
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Afterlife of Empire: Muslim-Ottoman Relations in Habsburg Bosnia Herzegovina, 1878-1914
"Afterlife of Empire" explores Ottoman cultural, social, and political continuities in Bosnia Herzegovina during the Habsburg administration (1878-1914). The research focuses on the enduring influence of the Ottoman Empire - an influence perpetuated both by the efforts of the Ottoman imperial …
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Locating an Ottoman Port-City in the Early Modern Mediterranean: Izmir 1580-1780
… and Dutch chartered companies at a time of Ottoman economic and political crisis and social dislocation. This formulation gives little credit to the city’s regional setting as an agent of change. This dissertation, in contrast, addresses the question of Izmir’s rise from the vantage point of …
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