Browsing M.A. Theses by Title

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  • 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 ...
  • Bedirxan Pashazades: power relations and nationalism (1876-1914) 
    Koç, Yener. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2012., 2012.)
    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 ...
  • Being an Armenian in Anatolia: narratives of loss and recuperation 
    Özden, Can. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2014., 2014.)
    This thesis, which is based on an oral history research with Armenians who have migrated from Anatolia to Istanbul in the last few decades, investigates the formation of Armenian identity in the present. As there are no ...
  • Belonging in a marginalized neighborhood :|a historical ethnography of Istanbul’s Okmeydanı 
    Yıldız, Demet. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    This thesis studies the contemporary history of Okmeydanı, an urban neighborhood in Istanbul which has a specific place in the history of urbanization in Turkey. Established as a gecekondu settlement during the rural-urban ...
  • Between theatrical politics and political theater: Late Ottoman theatrical spheres 
    Süloş, Melis. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2010., 2010.)
    This thesis intends to perceive theater as one of the best stages representing the political tensions, and the intellectual movements of its epoch. In rethinking theater and politics in the late Ottoman Empire, I focused ...
  • Boys in court :|questioning child abuse cases between 1860 and 1865 
    Oruçoğlu, Erkan. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)
    This thesis explores how the sexual offenses committed against the male children were handled by the Ottoman courts and the society at large in the Ottoman lands between the years 1860 and 1865 together with the regulations ...
  • Buçuk millet: The Ottoman Gypsies in the reign of Sultan Abdülhamid II (1876-1909) 
    Yüksel, Ceyda. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2009., 2009.)
    This thesis, in general, aimed to examine Gypsies who were the most neglected ethnic group of the Ottoman history. Until this time, it is witnessed that so many research and studies were done about various ethnic communities ...
  • Built heritage, culture and nation: Ali Saim Ülgen (1913-1963) 
    Aytuğ, Beste. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2017., 2017.)
    This thesis examines the construction of the conceptions of heritage, culture and nation during the Early Republican period through the archive of Ali Saim Ülgen in SALT Research. Ali Saim Ülgen, as an architect, ...
  • ''CanIı TarihIer": a discourse analysis of the memoirs of Young Turks (1908-1923) 
    Coşkuntuna, Duygu. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2013., 2013.)
    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 ...
  • Capitalist urbanization in Turkey between the 1920s and the early 1990s: an alternative interpretation 
    Kabadayı, Kerem. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2004., 2004.)
    This study examines the relation between the development of capitalism in Turkey and urbanization through a period of seven decades. It aims to contextualize urban development as a complex social phenomenon within the ...
  • Carnival celebrations in Istanbul :|the changing perception and experience of Apokries and Baklahorani 
    Vardar, Naz. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2020., 2020.)
    This thesis examines the transformation in the perception and experience of the carnival celebrations in Istanbul during the late Ottoman and Republican era. I attempt to problematize the nostalgia and revitalization of ...
  • Celebrating difference: "Turkish Theatre" in the Chicago World’s Columbian exposition of 1893 
    Sarıkaya, Cafer. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2010., 2010.)
    This thesis examines Turkish Theatre and its performances during the Chicago World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893. Methodologically, the research adopts two primary sources, the Turkish Theatre: Souvenir Programme, and ...
  • Circassian organizations in the Ottoman Empire (1908-1923) 
    Arslan, Elmas Zeynep (Aksoy). (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2008., 2008.)
    My thesis is composed of two main sections, namely, Circassian Union and Support Association and Circassian Women’s Support Association. In these two main sections, there are two sub-headings in these two sections such as ...
  • 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 ...
  • Confessionalization of space in seventeenth-century Istanbul: The making of a Jewish Habitus 
    İdil, Erdem. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2018., 2018.)
    This thesis examines the interconnections between spatial practices and confessional politics in early modern Istanbul through a focus on non-Muslim communities. Addressing the correspondences amid the primary sources ...
  • Continuity and change in the culinary culture of the Ottoman palace in the 19th century 
    Samancı, Özge. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute of Social Sciences, 1998., 1998.)
    This study undertook an introductory research about Ottoman culinary culture. In particular, the study sought to discover the changing and continuing characteristics of the Ottoman palace cuisine during the 19th century. ...
  • Continuity and change on the Bosphorus shore: Arnavutköy before and after the Greek revolution of 1821 
    Ansel, Esra. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2016., 2016.)
    This study examines some crucial phases of transformation in Arnavutköy (Mega Revma), in terms of its social topography and landscape. It especially centers on the Greek Revolution of 1821, as the first serious disruption ...
  • Conversion in the Late Ottoman Empire: a case study on the legal status of Greek Orthodox converted to Islam, 1856-1908 
    Vasileiou, Maria. (Thesis (M.A.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2009., 2009.)
    This paper discusses the legal status of the Greek Orthodox converted to Islam in the Ottoman Empire for the period extending between the enhancement of the Tanzimat with the Islahat fermanı of 1856 until the end of the ...
  • Credit, creditors, and moneylending in late Byzantine Constantinople 
    Göndiken, Özgür. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2021., 2021.)
    This thesis analyzes the operations of Byzantine moneylenders and their relations with their debtors from the 6th to the 15th century, with a special focus on the 14th century. By examining the credit transactions in the ...
  • 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 ...

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