This dissertation is a collection of three chapters all pertaining to institutional economics. In short, the field of institutional economics is an outgrowth of public economics, in the sense that in many cases the key institutions that frame economic decisionmaking are the prod…
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This dissertation examines the role that Catholic missionary movements in the Ottoman Empire and Persia played in fostering the growth of science and learning in early modern Europe. The Ottoman Empire's alliance with France, solemnized in the Capitulations, opened the Ottoman E…
During the second half of the nineteenth century, the financial crises of the Ottoman Empire increasingly made visible the contestation within the public. Multiple political and economic actors, such as intellectuals, bureaucrats, merchants, and bankers, challenged and profited …
The impact of the Ottoman Commercial Tribunals on the Tanzimat remains an enigma for historians. This branch of the Ottoman legal system uniquely accepted European merchants as judges, and existed throughout the Ottoman Empire for several decades as an institution of the Tanzima…
Mehmed the Conqueror (r. 1451–1481) built four fortresses ex nihilo in the years leading up to and immediately following the conquest of Constantinople. Two were located in the immediate vicinity of his new capital: RumeliHisarý (1452), placed opposite an existing Ottoman fortif…
This dissertation studies the French Romantic writers who pioneered travel to the Levant in the early nineteenth century in order to understand the motivations that drove them and the methods by which they were able to travel in an era before organized tourism. The study argues …
This thesis provides a study of the Ottoman Empire's display and citizens at the Great Exhibition of 1851 as represented by British print culture. Using official and satirical sources, it examines mediated images of the "Turk," identifying and interpreting differences between En…
This dissertation addresses early British intelligence activities and Anglo-Ottoman relations by viewing the activities of army officers and private individuals as a collective pursuit to safeguard British imperial interests. It offers a new understanding of the relationships be…
The hope is to use modern computer technology to present an interesting subject and with the intention of depicting important historical events and the lives of important figures involved in the Ottoman empire (i.e., the Turkish empire) on a GIS map to enhance student activity a…
This study explores the world of state education in the Ottoman Empire during the reign of Sultan Abdulhamid II. It begins by confronting a historiographical paradox: while histories have overemphasized the role that the West and the empire's minority communities played in inspi…
Using English accounts of the Ottoman Empire's 1683 siege of Vienna, including monographs, ballads, poems, and pamphlets, this paper examines the ways in which the English viewed the Turk in the late seventeenth century. My exploration of these descriptions of the siege reveal t…
This dissertation narrates an important episode in the transition of Christian peasants of Macedonia into nationhood at the turn of the twentieth century. I attempt to explain how a peasant society in the Ottoman Empire was co-opted into a war that was subsequently christened an…
This study examines the mutually constitutive relationship between the print culture of the late nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire and the framework of social, cultural and political transformations in which that culture operated. This study crosses traditional disciplinary line…
This thesis explores the environmental history of Ottoman lands and especially the impact of climate events associated with the Little Ice Age. Over the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, as the Ottomans conquered the Near East, the empire instituted elaborate systems for the pr…
The dissertation is an analysis of the Russian relationship to Orthodox Christians in the Ottoman Empire during the second half of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century. As a methodological approach, it uses the concepts of irredentism, Orientalism, and multi…
The thesis takes up the Ottoman story to develop an elaborate critique to the theory of path dependence while encompassing other complimentary theories, and to offer a comprehensive perspective for understanding institutional change and evolutionary development. The Ottoman weal…
This dissertation aims to analyze the formation of the Ottoman Empire and to make a contribution to the scholarship by presenting a possible new perspective. The inspiration to choose this field as a dissertation subject stemmed not only from my personal interest in the problem,…
American missionaries have long been the missing link in the study of the late Ottoman era in spite of the fact that they left their enduring mark in American and Western conceptions of the period, such as “Terrible Turk” and “Red Sultan” just to name a few. From the landing of …
This dissertation presents a new historical narrative of the main political events in Ottoman and Mediterranean history from 1516 to 1526 through the prism of İbrahim Pasha, the famous grand vizier of Sultan Süleyman. İbrahim Pasha was more than a mere servant or adviser to the …
This dissertation examines the role of the janissaries in social and political life of the early nineteenth century Istanbul. In contrast to the mainstream historiography which has treated the Janissary Corps exclusively as a military institution, this study attempts to explore …