Opium was a product which dramatically changed Chinese history in the nineteenth century. Twice it caused war between Britain and the Qing Dynasty and forced the latter to sign the free trade treaty. The British exploitation ...

This study analyzes the dynamics of sixteenth-century economic growth and the following crisis at the end of the century in Anatolia as reflected in the finances of Çelebi Sultan Mehmed Vakfı in Bursa. The main resource ...

This thesis is an attempt at understanding the frame of mind that the members of the Committee of Union and Progress carried with them throughout the Revolution of 1908 and the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire. It is ...

This sectorial based market study, analyzes the commercial life in Istanbul at the turn of our century. In other words, the thesis concentrates on merchants and workers dealing with international trade, market mechanisms, ...

George-Gennadios Scholarios (ca. 1400-ca. 1472) is a late Byzantine intellectual and a man of religion. He was born a Byzantine and died an Ottoman, which highlights his witnessing a crucial transition period. Scholarios ...

This thesis re-evaluates the Middle Bronze Age settlement remains at Tarsus-Gözlükule, a multi-period mound located in the western part of the Cilician plain. The stratigraphy of the period is investigated by comparing ...

This thesis aims to investigate the policies developed by Ottoman bureaucrats in their relations to Greek associations in the years between 1861 and 1912. These policies were constructed through the various documents the ...

By focusing on the political and cultural activities of a family known as Bedirxan Pashazades during the era of Abdulhamid II (1876-1909) and Second Constitutional Period (1908-1914), this thesis problematizes whether the ...

By the second half ofthe nineteenth century Istanbul had become an important social and political environment for many Iranian activists and politicians who had been exiled from Iran. This community fonned a highly active ...

This thesis explores an eminent liberal journalist, Ahmed Emin (Yalman)’s changing perceptions of the “other” in the armistice period (1918-1923). Throughout the work, how Ahmed Emin perceives non-Muslim Ottomans, non-Turkish ...