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Showing 1 to 20 of 81 for “"The 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. …
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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
<p>In its first century, the Society of Jesus undertook numerous missions 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 …
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The Making of a Sufi Order Between Heresy and Legitimacy: Bayrami-Malāmis in the Ottoman Empire
… currents with transformative ideals were part of the Sufi religious identity during the late medieval Islamic period. This dissertation tries to make sense of this phenomenon by focusing on the historical evolution of the Bayrami-Malāmi Sufi order within the Ottoman Empire. The scope of the study …
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The New Order and Its Enemies: Opposition to Military Reform in the Ottoman Empire, 1789 - 1807
This dissertation is a study of the New Order (Nizam-i Cedid) army and the opposition it triggered during the reign of Selim III (1789-1807). It aims to present an alternative perspective on the Ottoman military reform and its implications for the course of the imperial transformation. It hopes to …
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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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Sir John Finch’s (1626–1682) and Dr John Covel’s (1638–1722) Sensory Experiences in the Ottoman Empire, 1660-1690
This dissertation 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 …
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The Benaki Museum in Interwar Greece: Constructing Greek Art & the Greek Nation After the Fall of the Ottoman Empire
In this dissertation, I investigate the formation of the Benaki Museum, founded in Athens, Greece 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 …
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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
By reassessing the known primary sources and introducing new archival material from the archives in Hungary, Croatia, and Italy, this thesis revisits several crucial points of the history of Hungarian-Ottoman relations in the era of King Matthias Corvinus (r. 1458-1490) and raises new questions …
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"At the end of empire: imperial governance, inter-imperial rivalry and ""autonomy"" in Wallachia and Moldavia (1780s-1850s)"
This dissertation recreates the biography of several power holders in Wallachia and Moldavia to explore how local, imperial 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, …
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Ottoman Empire's role in the emergence of the "European" world system
… I will be focusing on classical world system theory. I will discuss the revisions that are done to the system and how these 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, …
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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
This dissertation concerns 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 …
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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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Turkic Educators and Students Breaking Their Silence: An Oral History of a Tangled Web of Political Power
The social genocide of the Hizmet people by the Erdoğan regime has left an indelible mark on Turkic educators and students worldwide. The practice of genocide as a form of political control is steeped in the history of the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey and now the instrument of choice …
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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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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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La comunità ebraica di Istanbul sospesa tra nostalgia neo-ottomana e memoria repubblicana
Memory studies that since the 1980s have spread in Turkey in relation to the Ottoman Empire have generated a wave of nostalgia for the Ottoman governance and society. At the same time, a political culture has spread which, inspired by reflective nostalgia, places the past, present and future in …
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