Browsing M.A. Theses by Title

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  • 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 ...
  • Questioning an "icon of change": the Nuruosmaniye complex and the writing of Ottoman Architectural history 
    Suman, Fatma Selva. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2007., 2007.)
    Eighteenth-century Istanbul set the stage for important political and socio-economic transformations; changing tastes and lifestyles were accompanied by an intensive architectural activity and more diffused patronage ...
  • Re-thinking Mecelle-i Ahkam-ı Adliyye: legal transformation in the nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire 
    Tezcanlı, Merve. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2007., 2007.)
    The object of this thesis is to provide a re-evaluation of the legal transformation in the nineteenth centuryOttoman Empire with a focus on the formation of Mecelle-i Ahkam-ı Adliyye, an Islamic civil code ahich was developed ...
  • Reading modernity in India: the practice of widow-burning in the light of nineteenth and twentieth century debates 
    Özkaçar, Burcu. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2015., 2015.)
    This study examines the practice of burning-wives in colonial India during the nineteenth century, when the debate over abolishing it was at its peak. Based on secondary sources, it tries to understand how the British rule ...
  • Reconstructing Yenice-i Vardar: patronage of the Evrenosoğlu family 
    Umur, Yasemin. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2008., 2008.)
    Underlying this thesis is the conjecture that the Evrenosoğlu family’s patronage activities between the late fourteenth and the mid sixteenth centuries, and the destiny of their power base Yenice-i Vardar, were not independent ...
  • Regime change in early Hellenistic Athens 
    Serbest, Nazım Can. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2017., 2017.)
    This thesis undertakes a causal analysis of the political instability that the Athenian democracy experienced during the four decades after the death of Alexander the Great. The frequency of changes in the city’s political ...
  • Remember every time, not just once :|historical geography and social memory in Turkey and Armenia 
    İşcier, Mustafa. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    With the effect of modernization in the last to hundred years we see that nowadays modern nations face the risk of losing their collective identity as a result of globalization. As a reflex of this, it is an undeniable ...
  • Resistance in everyday life and the performativity of the Turkish minority in Bulgaria (1946–1989) 
    Ciddi, Onur. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2021., 2021.)
    This thesis examines the passive and mild resistance developed by the Muslim Turkish minority, who lived in Bulgaria during the period of the People's Republic of Bulgaria, against assimilation policies, on the basis of ...
  • Rethinking Young Turk Revolution :|Manaki Brothers still and moving images 
    Özen, Saadet. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2010., 2010.)
    Yanaki Manaki (1878-1954) and Milton Manaki (1882-1964) are regarded as the pioneers of the Balkan cinema who built a collection composed of 17583 photographs and 2477,2 meters of moving images preserved today at the ...
  • Rural economy and vakıf finances in sixteenth-century Anatolia: a study on Çelebi Sultan Mehmed Vakfı in Bursa, 1558-1591 
    Üzümçeker, Ramiz. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2014., 2014.)
    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 ...

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