This thesis examines how the unbound world of the Don steppe frontier became a borderland of the Russian empire. It connects the rivalry of the Russian and Ottoman states in the Black Sea basin to the social history of the Don Cossacks, who evolved from an open, multiethnic, fra…
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In the mid-nineteenth century, the French Imperium faced revolution in its capital and anti-colonial insurrection in Algeria. In each case, workers and tribes challenged France's emergent liberal order of private property, the civil code, and market relations. Though undertaken …
This dissertation uses agent-based computer simulation to examine general processes that generate patterns of social organization among nomadic pastoral populations in Inner Asia. Of particular interest are processes related to the formation of nomadic states and empires, such a…
This is the first intensive participant observation study of one of the numerous groups of itinerant smiths living among Muslim camel nomads in the vast region ranging from the Rio Del Oro in the Western Sahara, through the Sudan, the Horn of Africa and the Arabian Desert. Tware…
In this dissertation the section on the Western Barbarians in Tu Yu's early 9th century encyclopedic T'ung Tien is translated into English and annotated. The period from the Han Dynasty through the early T'ang is covered, with emphasis on the latter; geographically, Tu Yu's full…
This dissertation explores the social and cultural history of the Kazakh steppe by examining some of the ways in which the Middle Horde Kazakh nomads practiced their judicial customs (adat) within the historical context of Russian colonial rule in the period from 1868 to 1898. I…
The historiography of Ottoman state actions towards migrant tribes depends more on the official documents of the government. The case of Fırka-i Islâhiye (Reform Division) in 1865 was no exception. It has been researched heavily depending on official sources and Ahmed Cevdet Efe…
1908 ile 1918 yılları arası II. Meşrutiyet dönemi olarak adlandırılır. 1908 yılında anayasanın yeniden ilanı ve meclisin tekrar açılması, Osmanlı İmparatorluğu'nda özgürlükçü bir havanın esmesine neden oldu. Bu ortamda İstanbul başta olmak üzere imparatorluğun birçok vilayetinde…
The paternal genetic relationships among the populations of Syro-Mesopotamia and Arabia were examined with the purpose of identifying the demographic processes that accompanied the development of semi-nomadic ovicaprid pastoralism and fully nomadic camel pastoralism in that regi…
The research reported in this dissertation identifies what happens to nomads when they lose their animals and what can be done by the community, government, and non-governmental organizations to enable the ex-nomads to attain livelihood self-sufficiency. It has addressed these c…
Conrad juxtaposes Western culture with its native counterpart in order to formulate a vision that can guide the alienated individual who has lost his connection with his own nature, his family, and his society. Unlike many of his contemporaries who only describe this miserable h…