This thesis argues that in the second half of the 19th century, the Iraqi provinces of the Ottoman Empire constituted a frontier of imperial contestation between the Ottoman and British empires. The Ottoman Empire sought establish political hegemony over these far-flung province…
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Cotton was the most important commodity in the economy of the industrialized Western world in the mid-nineteenth century, as vital then as petroleum is today. It was widely believed that a prolonged interruption of the cotton supply would lead not merely to a severe economic dep…
This document discusses the economic connection between Ottoman Anatolia and the Crimean Khanate within the context of the slave trade. It emphasizes the consumption of slaves in Anatolia as a driving force behind the khanate's consistent raiding into Russian territory. The freq…
Throughout the centuries, writers, artists and travelers from around the globe have marveled at the great city of Istanbul. A historical metropolis and an elaborate interface of cultures and religions, it comes as no surprise that the city would inspire those who entered its con…
As in all legal disputes, there are many versions of this story. One party claims the other broke a contract by failing to pay off a debt. The other argues the contract was never legally binding and he was coerced into signing it in the first place. This may sound like a fairly …
This dissertation takes up the task to describe and analyze the main aspects of the broad demographic, ethno-religious, and socio-cultural transformation that took place in a geographically limited region of the Ottoman Balkans--the Deliorman (Wild Forest, mod. Ludogorie) in tod…
The capture of Constantinople by the Ottoman armies of Mehmed II in 1453 was a cataclysmic event that reverberated throughout Renaissance Europe. This event intensified the exodus of Byzantines to Italy and beyond and they brought along with them the heritage of Greek antiquity.…
During the First World War, the Russian Caucasian Army had occupied a territory comprising the Ottoman provinces of Trabzon, Erzurum, Van, and, for a shorter period, Bitlis. The region that the Russian forces occupied was depopulated to a great extent due to the deportation and …
The dissertation examines the relief operations by private American philanthropic organizations among Ottoman Greek refugees who were forced to migrate from Turkey to Greece in the aftermath of World War I. The American humanitarian organizations, namely the American Red Cross, …
European Powers--notably Great Britain--dominated the Armenian Question from the internationalization of the movement of the Ottoman Armenians for democratic reform and local autonomy at the conferences in San Stefano and Berlin in 1878, to the Paris Peace Conference in 1919; th…
When the Young Turk Revolution took place in July 1908 Britain was careful to give its makers a cautious welcome but she limited her practical assistance to verbal sympathy and the supplying of a few advisers. Both the FO and the Embassy were critical of the new regime from the …
This dissertation departs from the usual analysis of the Baghdad Railway as a symbol of German imperialism. Revisiting the railway's construction sites on the Ottoman frontier, it chronicles the important Ottoman contribution to the enterprise and explores the dynamics of the Tu…
This thesis deals with the role that feudalism plays in the emergence of capitalism. In contrast to explanations emphasizing the rise of capitalism after the collapse of feudalism, the emphasis here is on the development of capitalism within feudal societies. These early capital…
This dissertation examines contractual choices of tax collection in the fiscal history; specifically it examines the rise and fall of tax farming in the early modern period. Dissatisfied with existing theoretical explanations, this research develops an enhanced transaction cost …
During the Tanzimat period (1839–1878), the Ottoman state applied certain reform policies in order to centralize its administration, increase state revenue and implement social and economic development projects in the core regions of the empire. These same reform policies result…
This dissertation is on the role and the context of coffeehouses in Istanbul, the capital of Ottoman Empire, in the late eighteenth and first half of the nineteenth century. It examines the place of coffeehouses in the larger society and their functions in various social network…
This is a study on the material and symbolic re-configuration of urban spaces and population structures in the processes of the transition from the Ottoman empire to the Turkish nation-state in the historically specific case of Izmir. Through an analysis of two historical events…
This work utilizes the internal documents of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation [ARF] to examine Armeno-Turkish relations for the brief period of constitutional rule in the Ottoman Empire. It integrates this resource with the existing research on the last years of the empire,…
This dissertation aims to revive the concept of geography in the study of international relations. I argue for the continued importance of geography in shaping the grand strategy of states. Specifically, I consider three geographical features: location of resources, layout of tr…