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  • Ottoman craft guilds and silk-weaving industry in İstanbul 
    Turna, Nalan. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute of Social Sciences, 2001., 2001.)
    This thesis examines the Ottoman craft guilds and silk-weaving industry in İstanbul. For this study, I have used both primary and secondary sources and conducted research in the Prime Ministry Archives in İstanbul. In the ...
  • Ottoman emigration to Argentina 1870-1914 
    Baycar, M. Kazım. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2008., 2008.)
    This thesis scrutinizes the history of emigration from the Ottoman Empire to Argentina between 1870-1914, based on primary sources obtained from the Prime ministry Ottoman State archives and some statistics held by Argentine ...
  • Ottoman Kırklareli and its Hinterland in the 19th century 
    Uçan, Lale. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute of Social Sciences, 2002., 2002.)
    The present study seeks to explore the economic position of Kırkkilise between 1801 and 1902. Connected to this, the importance of the region for Istanbul is questioned. The study is based on the Ottoman State Archives. ...
  • Ottoman medical institutions an architectural analysis 
    Almas, Tülin. (Thesis (M.A.)- Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Scieences, 1986., 1986.)
    From the architectural point of view, the hospitals erected during the ottoman era are among the least-studied types of structures. Hospitals constructed especially in the 15th and 16th centuries reflect the architectural ...
  • Ottoman official discourse and its reflections during the Crimean War 
    Coşkuner, Fatma Özyiğit. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2010., 2010.)
    From a number of aspects the Crimean War was a turning point for the Ottoman Empire. During this war the greatest powers in Europe went into action with the Ottomans and with the Paris Peace Treaty at the end of the war ...
  • Ottoman policy toward Central Europe during the thirty years’ war: Paul Strassburg’s embassy to constantinople 
    Cevrioğlu, Mahmut Halef. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2015., 2015.)
    The main concern of this study is to make a foreign policy analysis of the Ottomans, and to try demonstrating how policy-making might have affected the Ottoman take during the ThirtyYears War (1618-1648). Under the light ...
  • Ottoman-Qajar relations through photography: Mozaffar al-Din Shah’s İstanbul visit 
    Kilerci, Başak. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2013., 2013.)
    This study discusses the use of photography as part of a strategy of representation in Qajar Iran and the Ottoman Empire in the nineteenth century within the framework of Ottoman-Qajar rivalry and cooperation. The main ...
  • Painting, artistic patronage and criticism in the public sphere: a study of the Ottoman society of painters, 1909-1918 
    Tongo, Gizem. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2012., 2012.)
    This study examines the Ottoman Society of Painters, and traces the history of its first nine years, from its foundation in 1909 until the demise of the Empire in 1918. The position of the Ottoman Society of Painters in ...
  • Palace architecture and iIts rhetoric in Seljuk Anatolia :|the conceptualization of Kubadabad 
    Gürgen, Işık. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    The palace complex of Kubadabad near Beyşehir - regarding its good state of preservation - provides an ideal object for the study of palace architecture and the (courtly) rhetoric under the reign of the Rum-Seljuk Sultan ...
  • Palace politics and the rise of the chief black eunuch in the Ottoman Empire 
    Karakoç, Yıldız. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2005., 2005.)
    This study investigates the emergence of the chief black eunuch or the darüssaade agha as a pivotal harem figure in the context of the transformation of the Ottoman state and royal household in the post-Süleymanic era. It ...
  • Papa Eftim and the foundation of the Turkish Orthodox Church 
    Benlisoy, Foti. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2002, 2002.)
    The peculiar type of identity of the Turcophone Anatolian Orthodoxta<ar~) communities arose a controversy between the Greek and the Turkish nationalisms in the early 20th century on whether they were Turcicised Greeks or ...
  • People and politics in eleventh-century Constantinople, 1025–1081 
    Savaş, Merve. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    This thesis examines the political repertoire of the people in eleventh-century Constantinople through rereading three main historical sources of eleventh-century Byzantine history–Michael Psellos’ Chronographia, Michael ...
  • Philanthropy and appropriation policies towards the orphans and foundlings of the Greek Orthodox Community of Istanbul, (1852-1908) 
    Özkan, Dilek. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2009., 2009.)
    This study, on the one hand, focuses on the treatment of orphans and foundlings of the Greek Orthodox community of Istanbul and concentrates on the appropriation policies applied towards them. On the other hand, it discusses ...
  • Photography and the deportation of Ottoman Armenians during the first World War 
    Gülersönmez, İrem. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2018., 2018.)
    This thesis examines the photographic archive of the deportation of Ottoman Armenians during the First World War. The central objective of the thesis is to approach the photographs in question not solely as historiographical ...
  • Poetics and politics of photography: The representation of Japan in the photography collection of Abdulhamid II 
    Kaygusuz, Banu. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2009., 2009.)
    This thesis, pertaining to the photograph albums of Japan in the photography collection of Abdulhamid II, focuses primarily on the political and commercial use of photography tehnology as a mcans for the representation ...
  • Politics in a sixteenth-century Ottoman scholar’s worldview: Taşköprizade Ahmed’s (d. 968/1561) discourse on rulership 
    Nur, Ahmed Tahir. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2015., 2015.)
    This thesis focuses on the theme of rulership in the discourse of the Ottoman scholar Taşköprizade Ahmed (d. 968/1561), who lived during the reigns o Selim I (1512- 20) and Süleyman (1520-1566). Through an analysis of his ...
  • Poverty and the poor in Victorian Britain 1837 -1901 
    Kocatürk, Önder. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute of Social Sciences, 2003., 2003.)
    This thesis is an attempt to analyze the dimensions of poverty and living standards of the working-class masses in Britain during the heyday of industrial capitalism, the age of Queen Victoria between 1837 and 1901, with ...
  • Production and trade of opium in the Ottoman Empire, 1828-1838 
    Matsui, Masako. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute of Social Sciences, 1995., 1995.)
    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 ...
  • Proto-industrialization in the mid-nineteenth-century Balkan countryside: textile manufacturing in villages of Plovdiv 
    Öncel, Fatma. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2012., 2012.)
    This study analyzes the rural manufacturing in the mid-nineteenth century Ottoman Balkans. Woollen-textile manufacturing in three villages of Plovdiv; Karlova, Kalofer and Sopot are examined for this purpose. The thesis ...
  • Public space and memory in late antique Byzantium 
    Gezgin, Egemen. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2021., 2021.)
    This thesis examines the transformation of the public space in late antique Byzantium from the perspective of identity and memory studies. The process of destruction, removal, and/or Christianization of historically ...

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