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American foreign missions to the Armenians of the Ottoman Empire: fashioning the model of educated christian womanhood in the East in the second half of the nineteenth century
(Bilkent University, 2018-01)The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) was one of the first establishments to introduce a Western-style educational system to the peoples of the Ottoman Empire. This thesis is an examination of ... -
American Zion?: The spiritual currents of the agricultural settlement at Jaffa, 1850-1858
(Bilkent University, 2022-08)Placing the colony founded by Clorinda S.Minor, the American agricultural initiative in the Holy Land, at the center, this thesis meticulously traces answers to three questions: What prompted these Americans to settle in ... -
Cradle of triumph: the invasion of Sicily and the Anglo-American Alliance in the Second World War
(Bilkent University, 2017-08)This study analyzes the vital importance of the Invasion of Sicily (July 9/10-August 17, 1943), codenamed Operation Husky for the Anglo-American Alliance in the Second World War. As the largest amphibious operation in ... -
Diplomacy and business in capable hands: The American officials who shaped U.S.-Turkey economic and commercial relations in the early Cold War period
(Bilkent University, 2022-12)Turkey-U.S. relations, which started to deepen at the beginning of the Cold War, turned into a political and military partnership with Turkey's joining NATO in 1952. As another significant pillar of this partnership, an ... -
Freemasonry in the Ottoman lands: a transnational history
(Bilkent University, 2022-07)Early encounters with Freemasonry in the Ottoman lands took place in the eighteenth century. Its significance as a sociocultural institution developed after the Crimean War, when Ottoman subjects belonging to different ... -
A historical analysis of two American women’s travel to Ankara during the 1950s: mutual understanding, transition and culture in Ankara
(Bilkent University, 2021-08)The purpose of this thesis is to examine the cultural transformations in Ankara, especially in social and educational life resulting from the increase in the mutual interest between Turkey and the United States, by mainly ... -
Malcolm X’s attempt to internationalize the civil rights movement during the period between March 1964 and February 1965
(Bilkent University, 2017-11)In March 1964, Malcolm X split off from the Nation of Islam and continued his struggle as one of the foremost civil rights leaders until his assassination in February 1965. This thesis will examine Malcolm X and his ... -
Reconstructing the self and the American : Civil War veterans in khedival Egypt
(Bilkent University, 2020-08)Between 1869 and 1878, American officers from both sides of the Civil War were recruited into the Egyptian Army. The former foes collaborated in reforming the khedival military by reorganizing the units and professional ... -
Struggling for individuality: the Istanbul YWCA
(Bilkent University, 2021-08)This study argues that the YWCA’s mainly American staff, observing that familial, social and educational structure prevented women from independent decision-making in Istanbul, promoted individuality by their labor and ... -
Taft's open door policy to the near east : dollar diplomacy practices in the ottoman empire
(Bilkent University, 2015-09)This thesis analyzes the United States' Dollar Diplomacy and its practices towards the Ottoman Empire during William Howard Taft's presidency. The United States was not quite interested in improving its economic and ... -
Ufuk : how the US information agency molded Turkish elite opinion, 1960-1980
(Bilkent University, 2014)This study argues that the United States Information Agency carried out an intense public diplomacy program in Turkey between 1960 and 1980 in order to ameliorate the U.S. image among the Turkish urban elite, especially among ... -
Yankee levantine : David Offley and Ottoman – American relations in the early nineteenth century
(Bilkent University, 2016-09)This study focuses on the role of David Offley who settled in Smyrna and opened the first American trade house in 1811 which lead to the establishment of economic, diplomatic, social and cultural relations between the ...
