This dissertation examines the transformation of rice farming before the state, the society, and the economy in Turkey between 1948 and 2018. Rice is one of the most important fields of application of the Green Revolution ...

This dissertation examines the politics of forestry in the context of late Ottoman Mediterranean Anatolia. Exploring the power struggles among forest officials, timber traders, and Tahtacı communities, this study discusses ...

This dissertation examines migrant agricultural labor in Turkey as lens through which to explain the effects of economic, political, and geopolitical changes on rural mobilities. Two factors explain why Seasonal agricultural ...

This dissertation is a portrayal of the formation of professional ulema identity in the late nineteenth century with a specific focus on the educational and professional experiences of ilmiye members. It argues that the ...

This dissertation provides a political-economic analysis of Turkish telecommunications policy in the period of outward-oriented development after 1980. The dissertation combines the findings of the telecommunications policy ...

This dissertation scrutinizes the Cold War Turkish diplomatic bureaucracy with an emphasis on the 1960-80 period in comparison to the world examples. The study is not a narrative of Turkish foreign policy but presents the ...

Primary school teachers in Turkey comprised an influential group in Turkish society in the twenty-first century since they are a large occupational group among state workers. Moreover, their occupation touches the heart ...

This dissertation analyzes the reflections of nineteenth-century administrative, fiscal and social transformations on the sub-province of Muş that was situated on the frontiers of the Ottoman Empire. It examines the ...

This dissertation focuses on the lives and experiences of single, poor women in late Ottoman Istanbul, along with new governmental policies controlling their urban mobility, sexuality, and labor. From the mid-nineteenth ...

This dissertation examines employment and working conditions of tourism service workers employed in mass tourism-oriented holiday villages located in Manavgat (Antalya) and Fethiye (Muğla). By focusing on workplace and the ...