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 ...

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 ...

From the second half of the nineteenth century onwards the Turcophony of the majority of the Orthodox population of Anatolia became to be treated gradually as an anomaly that has to be corrected. The ecclesiastic leadership ...

Ōtani Kōzui (1876-1948), the twenty second patriarch of the Honpa Honganji denomination of Buddhist Jōdo Shinshū sect (True Pure Land or Shin Buddhism) and the chief-abbot of its head-temple Western Honganji, Kyoto. He ...

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 ...

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. ...

This dissertation restores the lives of a large body of manumitted female palace slaves (sarayîs), and explores their role and place at the imperial court through a study of various aspects of their lives in the eighteenth ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...