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Showing 1 to 20 of 104 for “"Ottoman Empire"”.
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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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Great Britain and the Ottoman Empire: British Discourses on the ‘Ottomans’, 1860-1878
… British perceptions of and discourses on the ‘Ottomans’ in the mid-nineteenth century, which have been largely overlooked in the existing literature. It approaches the question through three case studies analysing the construction of the perceptions through a discourse-analytic framework. This …
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Empire, Province, and Power: Chorbadzhi (Çorbacı) Networks in the Ottoman Empire, 1790s-1860s
Provincial political culture in the Ottoman Empire went through multiple transformations and crises during the later eighteenth century leading to power reconfigurations in localities across the Empire. Although Muslim local notables (ayans) of this period have enjoyed a sustained scholarly …
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Confessional Politics and Religious Identity in the Early Jesuit Missions to the Ottoman Empire
… to the various Christian communities of the Ottoman Empire. In each instance, the Jesuits faced obstacles to their efforts to Catholicize the Christian Orient. Through an examination of the Jesuit experience in the early modern Ottoman Empire, I argue that particular historiographical trends …
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The Making of a Sufi Order Between Heresy and Legitimacy: Bayrami-Malāmis in the Ottoman Empire
… of the Bayrami-Malāmi Sufi order within the Ottoman Empire. The scope of the study extends from the beginnings of the order during the ninth/ fifteenth century until its partial demise by the end of the eleventh/seventeenth century. The Bayrami-Malāmiyya was essentially marked by a reaction …
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The New Order and Its Enemies: Opposition to Military Reform in the Ottoman Empire, 1789 - 1807
… to present an alternative perspective on the Ottoman military reform and its implications for the course of the imperial transformation. It hopes to contribute to the social history of Ottoman military reform through an investigation of the challenges the state faced as well as the motivations …
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Foreign debt and structural change in the "sick man of Europe"--the Ottoman Empire, 1850-1875
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1988.
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The Ottoman empire from 1730 to 1734 as revealed in the despatches of Angelo Emo, Venetian Bailo
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FROM KIN TO KIND: ARMENIAN RACIALIZATION AND THE MEDIATION OF THE “HUMAN” IN THE LATE-TO-POST OTTOMAN EMPIRE
… the Mediation of the ‘Human’ in the Late-to-Post Ottoman Empire” traces the interspecies dynamics of racialization in the late Ottoman Empire and early Turkish republic through the perspective of one of the empire’s ethnominority communities: Armenians. It asks who was considered a proper “human” …
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Sir John Finch’s (1626–1682) and Dr John Covel’s (1638–1722) Sensory Experiences in the Ottoman Empire, 1660-1690
… examines the sensory dimensions of Anglo-Ottoman encounters in the seventeenth century through a micro-history of Sir John Finch (1626–1682) and Dr John Covel (1638–1722), two English travellers whose experiences in the Ottoman Empire were shaped by cultivated perception and scholarly …
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The Benaki Museum in Interwar Greece: Constructing Greek Art & the Greek Nation After the Fall of the Ottoman Empire
… in 1931, which exhibited a wide variety of Ottoman art and material culture. The museum, which continues to be a pre-eminent institution in Greece today, was largely the work of the Greek collector and founder Antonis Benakis (1873 – 1954) and its first director and curator Theodore Macridy …
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Definition, Extent, and Administration of the Hungarian Frontier toward the Ottoman Empire in the Reign of King Matthias Corvinus, 1458-1490
… crucial points of the history of Hungarian-Ottoman relations in the era of King Matthias Corvinus (r. 1458-1490) and raises new questions related to the social and political history of the Hungarian-Ottoman frontier. By relying on methods derived from geography and digital history, it …
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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)
This is a study of the shift from empire to nation 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 …
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"At the end of empire: imperial governance, inter-imperial rivalry and ""autonomy"" in Wallachia and Moldavia (1780s-1850s)"
… and inter-imperial politics interacted on this Ottoman borderland between the 1780s and 1850s and promoted European imperialist aims in the Ottoman Empire. For this purpose, it provides an analysis of Ottoman rule on a borderland inhabited by a Christian population and located near two Christian …
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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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In the Age of Freedom, in the Name of Justice": Slaves, Slaveholders, and the State in the Late Ottoman Empire and Early Turkish Republic, 1857-1933
… itself with the practice of slavery in the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic in the second half of the nineteenth and early decades of the twentieth centuries. It places slavery at the intersection of the new liberal political order that began to form in the mid-1850s, the expulsion of …
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Empire by Law: Ottoman Sovereignty and the British Occupation of Egypt, 1882-1923
This dissertation is an analysis of the Ottoman-European legal contest over Egypt. I explore the relationship between international law, imperial expansion and state formation in the late Ottoman Empire against the joint reconfiguration of ideas of sovereignty and imperial control during the late …
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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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