This thesis explores the nature of migration and movement between a Black Sea village and the urban and overseas communities formed by its inhabitants. It examines historical reasons for migration from the village and reveals how villagers on the Black Sea first migrated to Amer…
Throughout history, cultural encounters between the East and the West have led to attempts to struggle with the relations between Self and Other. It is a commonplace that dramatic events such as the fall of Constantinople (renamed Istanbul), the first siege of Vienna in 1529 and…
The ways in which the battle of Lepanto was imagined by contemporaries proves to be a combination and confluence of international and domestic political pressures, celebratory ritual, print practices, and the currency of intellectual ideas. The understanding of the Turkish adver…
This dissertation examines the strategies of constructing religious and racial difference in early modern drama. The plays examined in this study are by the major and minor playwrights of the period. They include, William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, Robert Daborne, Philip …
When Constantinople fell to the Turks in 1453, a group of Venetian humanists, who were both classical scholars and professional politicians, advocated a strong response. Most Venetian politicians, however, preferred to attempt to construct a Christian alliance that could collect…
The purpose of this study was to determine how many courses exist, or how much course content exists in Division IA colleges/universities regarding the Armenian Genocide in undergraduate higher education throughout the United States. Armenians throughout the world commemorate th…
In 1883, one century after the Russian invasion of the Crimea, a wholesale national awakening and modernization drive was initiated by Ismail Bey Gaspirali among the Crimean Tatars. Gaspirali realizing the dire problems faced by his compatriots, envisioned the solution in a tran…