• The formation and evolution of the Image of the Turks in Byzantine historiography 

  Tirali, Ali. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2022., 2022)

  This study explores the representation of the Turks in middle and late Byzantine historiography. It features a corpus covering the 11th to the 15th centuries, comprising the works of Attaleiates, Skylitzes, Anna Komnene, ...
• Isfahan and Istanbul in the early seventeenth century : Masjed-e Shah and Sultan Ahmed complexes 

  Gürkan Anar, Damla. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2022., 2022)

  This dissertation investigates the urban, architectural, and ceremonial formations of the Sultan Ahmed and Masjed-e Shah complexes, erected in early seventeenth century Istanbul and Isfahan by rival monarchs, Ahmed I ...
• Cultural identifications of the Greek Orthodox elite of Constantinople: discourse on music in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries 

  Erol, Merih. (Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2009., 2009.)

  This dissertation aims to explore the formation of a musical discourse among the Greek Orthodox educated elite of Constantinople in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This discourse was formed mainly through the ...
• Between voluntarism and resistance: The Ottoman mobilization of manpower in the First World War 

  Beşikçi, Mehmet. (Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2009., 2009.)

  This dissertation examines the Ottoman experience of mobilization of manpower in the First World War. By focusing mainly on Anatolia and the Muslim population, it aims to explore how the Ottoman state tried to cope with ...
• Rebelling for the old order: Ottoman Bosnia, 1826-1836 

  Turhan, Fatma Sel. (Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2009., 2009.)

  This dissertation analyzes the reasons why the local people of Bosnia rebelled against the centralization and reform policies of the Ottoman Empire during the period between 1826 and 1836, the ways in which the rebels ...
• The Transformation of the ‘modern’ axis of nineteenth-century Istanbul: property, investments and elites from Taksim Square to Sirkeci Station 

  Tanatar-Baruh, Lorans. (Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2009., 2009.)

  The “construction” of the “modern” axis of nineteenth-century Istanbul is analyzed through its three complementary facets: laws and regulations brought on property ownership including everyday practices; investments in ...
• The transformation of Ottoman crete: cretans, revolts and diplomatic politics in the late Ottoman Empire, 1895-1898 

  Şenışık, Pınar. (Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2007., 2007.)

  This dissertation aims to investigate Ottoman Crete during the late Ottoman Empire (1895-1898). It examines the internal dynamics of Ottoman Crete, the Cretan revolts of 1896 and 1897, massive involvement of Greece and the ...
• Extradition in the Ottoman international legal practice of the nineteenth century 

  Kamay, Berna. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2022., 2022.)

  This dissertation examines extradition (iade-i mücrimin), the rendition of criminals, in nineteenth century international legal practice of the Ottoman Empire. An examination of extradition cases in the nineteenth century ...
• Modernization through dancing bodies in Turkey 

  Yüceil, Zeynep Günsür. (Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2007., 2007.)

  The present study aims to explore the first thirty years of State Ballet Institutions of Turkey. It was based primarily upon the oral interviews of Turkish ballet’s subjects and the critics’ reviews mostly published in ...
• From antiquarianism to urban archaeology :|transformation of research on ‘Old’ Istanbul throughout the nineteenth century 

  Sümertaş, Firuzan Melike. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2021., 2021.)

  This dissertation is a study of a nineteenth-century intellectual network gathered around the agency of ‘old’ Constantinople as an object of antiquarian knowledge. The actors of the network are intellectuals from different ...
• Nomadic pastoral tribes at the intersection of the Ottoman, Persian and Russian Empires (1820s–1890s) 

  Koç, Yener. (Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2020., 2020.)

  This dissertation studies the changing military, political and economic relations between the Ottoman Empire and pastoral nomadic tribes that were wandering at the intersection of the Ottoman, Persian and Russian imperial ...
• Ottoman centralization and modernization in the province of Baghdad, 1831-1872 

  Ceylan, Ebubekir. (Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2006., 2006.)

  The present study aims to explore Ottoman centralization and modernization in theprovince of Baghdad, between 1831 and 1872. The study, which was based upon a variety ofsources, and primarily upon the Ottoman and British ...
• Minkārīzāde Yahyā and the Ottoman scholarly bureaucracy in the seventeenth century 

  Yoldaşlar, Özgün Deniz. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2021., 2021.)

  This dissertation examines the life and career of Minkārīzāde Yahyā (1609–1678) in the context of wider religious, administrative, political, and intellectual developments of the seventeenth century. It contends that ...
• Agriculture and agricultural knowledge in Bursa and Mihaliç (Karacabey) in the nineteenth century 

  Akçakaya, Zeynep, 1985- (Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)

  This dissertation analyzes the change in agriculture and agricultural knowledge in Bursa and Mihaliç (Karacabey) throughout the nineteenth century. By conducting this research in the century of change and scrutinizing ...
• The Ottoman printing enterprise :|legalization, agency and networks, 1831-1863 

  Başaran, Ayşe. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2019., 2019.)

  This dissertation focuses on the consolidation of the Ottoman printing enterprise between the establishment of the Directorate of Takvîm-i Vekâyi‘hâne-i Âmire in 1831 and its annexation to the Ministry of Public Education ...
• Historical writing in the late Ottoman Empire: Global encounters and historical experiments of Hayrullah Efendi 

  Veyselgil, Can. (Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2018., 2018.)

  This dissertation, drawing on a narrative analysis of a mid-nineteenth century Ottoman historical work written by Hayrullah Efendi (1817-1866), attempts at broadening our perspectives on late Ottoman historical writing. ...
• Agrarian relations and estate (Çiftlik) agriculture in Ottoman Thessaly (c. 1780 – 1880) 

  Öncel, Fatma. (Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2018., 2018.)

  This dissertation analyses agrarian relations and çiftlik agriculture in Thessaly from c. 1780 to c. 1880. It explains the dynamics of the rural economy in a Balkan region during a lengthy and critical epoch from the late ...
• From imperial palace to museum: The Topkapı Palace during the long nineteenth century 

  Özlü, Nilay. (Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2018., 2018.)

  This dissertation focuses on the last century of the Topkapı Palace, which is mostly overlooked. Focusing on the period beginning with the accession of Mahmud II until the foundation of the Republic and official declaration ...
• The 1720 imperial festival in Istanbul: Festivity and representation in the early eighteenth-century Ottoman Empire 

  Erdoğan, Sinem. (Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2017., 2017.)

  This dissertation focuses on the 1720 imperial circumcision festival that was held in Istanbul during the reign of Ahmed III (r. 1703-1730). It intends to present the first comprehensive monograph on an Ottoman imperial ...
• The art historiographical odyssey of Ernst Diez 

  Tonbul, Zehra. (Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2018., 2018.)

  The thesis traces the biography of Ernst Diez as a signifier of the transformations of Austro-German art historical scholarship in the first half of the twentieth century. It derives its incentive from the criticisms against ...

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