Bogazici University Digital Archive: Recent submissions

  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • Ottoman medical institutions an architectural analysis 
    Almas, Tülin. (Thesis (M.A.)- Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Scieences, 1986., 1986.)
    From the architectural point of view, the hospitals erected during the ottoman era are among the least-studied types of structures. Hospitals constructed especially in the 15th and 16th centuries reflect the architectural ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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. ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • The agrarian background to the “Dağlı” rebellion in the Rhodope mountains (1780-1810) 
    Öztaş, Çağdaş Salih. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2022., 2022.)
    This thesis examines the “dağlı” rebellion that emerged in the Rhodope Mountains between 1780-1810 through agricultural, environmental, and economic factors. At the end of the eighteenth century, the dağlıs formed large ...
  • 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 ...
  • A study of Azadamard :|socialism and the Armenian Revolutionary Federation's understanding of Socialist Ottomanism 
    Yalçın, Orhun. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2022., 2022.)
    This thesis examines the policies of the ARF through the articles published by the Azadamard newspaper, the publishing organ of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation, between March 1911 and September 1912. I argue that the ...
  • A critical perspective on scientific and technological input in late Ottoman cotton cultivation, 1840–1876 
    Akın, Utku Can. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in Social Sciences, 2022., 2022.)
    This thesis examines the role of scientific and technological input as a transformative and driving force in Ottoman cotton cultivation between 1840 and 1876. These two entities, with their controversial coexistence, make ...
  • A mode of space production in the nineteenth century :|İcadiye neighborhood as a case of ifraz 
    Arıkan, Burcu. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2021., 2021.)
    This thesis deals with a specific method of space production which is called ifraz. Ifraz means dividing a larger piece of land into smaller, and this method may be implemented in various ways depending on the context. ...
  • Social group interactions in the fourth century BC Athens 
    Akgül, Tuğçe. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2021., 2021.)
    The focus of this study is social group interactions in the context of Athenian society during the fourth-century BC. Rather than focusing on social order proposed by the laws, this thesis analyzes the relationships and ...
  • The memory of Nicaean rule in early Palaiologan texts as a means of Kaiserkritik and propaganda 
    Gül, Kevser. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2021., 2021.)
    This thesis analyzes the use of the name and memory of the Nicaean rule as a means of opposition and criticism after the usurpation of the throne by Michael VIII Palaiologos. The thesis claims that following the usurpation ...
  • Cypro-cilician painted pottery of Tarsus-Gözlükule :|understanding local ceramic production technology during the iron age 
    Mutlu, Zerrin. (Thesis (M.A.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2021., 2021.)
    This thesis aims to understand the development of Cypro-Cilician painted pottery of Tarsus-Gözlükule. It discusses how this pottery type developed and what the changes and continuities in its production are during the ...