Browsing M.A. Theses by Issue Date

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  • The Ottoman court records and the making of 'Urban History', with special reference to Mudanya Sicils (1645-1800) 
    Uğur, Yunus. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute of Social Sciences, 2001., 2001.)
    The sicils (Ottoman court records) have been utilized as a 'historical source' in studying different areas of Ottoman history since 1930s. Many historians have seen them very fruitful source to construct history of the ...
  • Clothing habits and regulations in the Ottoman Empire (1703-1839) 
    Argıt, Betül İpşirli. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2001., 2001.)
    This thesis is an attempt to present the account of clothing habits and clotllliig regulations of the Ottoman Empire mainly in the eighteenth century as far as the primary sources allow. In the eighteenth century the speed ...
  • 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 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. ...
  • Social history today through the analysis of Hobsbawm's historical writing 
    Coşkun, Çiğdem. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute of Social Sciences, 2002., 2002.)
    This thesis aims at concentrating on the main discussions in historiography in the last quarter of the twentieth century with regard to the changing questions and problems such as what the position of historian when s/he ...
  • Non-Muslims in Sivas at the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th centuries 
    Özel, N. Bilge. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2002., 2002.)
    The intensilication of the lise of Ottoman archival documents, mainly the court records, in studies dealing with the non-Muslim communities of the empire paved the way for the re-consideration of the paradigms of the millet ...
  • The relationship between the Mevlevi order and the Ottoman State in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries 
    Erdinç, Yasemin Bozoğlu. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute of Social Sciences, 2002., 2002.)
    This thesis examines the relationship between the Mevlevi order and Ottoman State in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries within a comparative and analytical framework. It questions the nature and transformation ...
  • 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 ...
  • Sadullah el-Ankaravi : Daily concerns of an Ottoman Astrologer 
    Koç, Gülçin (Tunalı) (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute of Social Sciences, 2002., 2002.)
    This thesis aims to study daily concerns of an Ottoman astrologer who lived in the first half of the 19th century in Ankara: Müderriszade Sadullah el-Ankaravi. Beside his prominent feature as an astrologer, he held the ...
  • A tarditional district, a conservative image: a history of Üsküdar between 1838-1914 
    Onaran, Burak. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute of Social Sciences, 2002., 2002.)
    In this thesis, Üsküdar, one of the four administrative districts of Ottoman Istanbul, has been analysed between 1838 and 1914 with reference to the concepts of conservative and traditional. Üsküdar's cultural and economic ...
  • The 1897 Greko-Ottoman war 
    Yılmaz, Mehmet Oytun. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2003., 2003.)
    The 1897 Greko-Ottoman War took place in the last decade of the Nineteenth Century where the societal transformation of the Ottoman Society had already produced a powerful public opinion. The Ottoman Statesmen were perfectly ...
  • Understanding 'Afrika-yi Osmani' in the late Ottoman period the case of Zanzibar 
    Babavatan, Hatice. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute of Social in Sciences , 2003., 2003.)
    The thesis introduces the term Afrika-yi 'Osmani, the Ottoman Africa into the study in order to understand the Ottoman presence in the African continent better. The issue is questioned under two main points. Firstly, the ...
  • Suicidal tendencies: culture of self-destruction in Ottoman Society 
    Şenol, Nurullah. (2003.)
    The main aim of this thesis is to examine the concept of suicide, which is one of the most common, controversial and multidimensional phenomena in the history of mankind, from a historian's perspective within the framework ...
  • 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 ...
  • Nation-building in China and Turkey :|an analysis of the thought of Sun Yat-sen and Mustafa Kemal Atatürk in comparative perspective 
    Eroğlu, Zeyneb Hale. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2003., 2003.)
    The thesis is about the 'revolutionary' history of China and Turkey, which orients towards the thoughts of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk(1881-1938) and Sun Yat-sen (1866-1925) on nationalism and socio-political change. Their ...
  • Cultural reportoire as a network of translated texts: the new literature after the Tanzimat period (1830- 1870) 
    Koç, Haşim. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2004., 2004.)
    This thesis aims to draw the general framework of a future project about the period between 1830 and 1870 with particular reference of the cross-cultural encounter of Ottomans with the French. This encounter ended up in ...
  • O Ergatis, 1908-09:|Ottomanism, national economy and modernization in the Ottoman Empire through a Greek-language newspaper of Izmir 
    Moroni, Anastasia Ileana. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2004., 2004.)
    O Ergatis (The Worker) is a Greek-language newspaper published in Izmir from August 1908 until April 1909. It was being published by a group belonging to the Ottoman Greek bourgeoisie, with the cooperation of a Muslim, a ...
  • Economic and moral organization of the Ottoman Society in the Tanzimat Period: Sadık Rifat Paşa's Ahlâk Risalesi 
    Ünüvar, Kerem. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2004., 2004.)
    There are many ahlâk treatises, which were used for educational purposes at the schools of the Tanzimat period (sıbyan mektepleri). These were mostly short booklets composed of advices for children with the assumption that ...
  • Baptizing territory : Reconstituting Rumeli after 1878 
    Çavdar, Ayşe. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2004., 2004.)
    The Berlin Treaty of 1878, which was signed between the Great Powers and the Ottoman Empire, not only created new nation states in the Balkans, such as Romania, Bulgaria and Serbia, but also ordered the Ottoman administration ...
  • Architectural patronage of women in the early Ottoman era 
    Çıkla, Ayşe. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2004., 2004.)
    This study investigates archtectural patronage of women through internal dynamics of the dynastic Ottoman household and sultans' political agendas throughout different phases of the empire-principality, transition period, ...

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