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From height to crisis: The last half century of Nizâm-i Kadîm and Ottoman society as seen by the Gazette de France, 1740-1787
(Bilkent University, 2022-09)This dissertation focuses on the period of 1740-1787 which was one of the last high points in the history of the Ottoman Empire. It uses the French monarchy’s official periodical, the Gazette de France, as its main source ... -
Hybrid Osmanlees”: racialism, caucasian slave trade and the race of Ottoman Turks
(Bilkent University, 2022-09)This thesis analyzes the Western perception of the racial identity of Ottoman Turks in the nineteenth century and how Caucasian slave trade complexified the perception in question. It relies on a vast array of primary ... -
A white paradise, American wonderland: an occidental journey of Turkish travelers
(Bilkent University, 2022-08)The goal of this thesis is to examine the journeys of Turkish travelers to the United States in 1940s and 1970s within the framework of Turkish occidentalism.1 Earlier works about occidentalism and especially Turkish ... -
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 ... -
In search of “gentlemen” in the fifteenth century: “The Boke of St. Albans”
(Bilkent University, 2022-07)This thesis explains the concept of “gentleman” and its place in the social and cultural world of fifteenth-century England. To this end it examines the Book of St. Albans, compiled by a mysterious individual towards the ... -
The Fez in the Northeast Africa: an analysis of the Ottoman administration on the Island of Massawa in 1849-1865 period
(Bilkent University, 2022-06)This thesis is about the policies pursued by the Ottoman administration in Massawa, a city in Ottoman Abyssinia during the 1849-1865 period. After the end of Massawa’s decentralized administrative structure with the efforts ... -
The notion of hassa soldiery and kul identity in the early Ottoman state – example of the janissary corps a comparative study
(Bilkent University, 2022-05)This study aims to reveal the conceptual origins of the notion of hassa soldiery and the idea of kul system in the early Ottoman state on the example of janissary corps by using the early Ottoman chronics, fourteenth and ... -
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 ... -
“And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the heaven and to everything that creeps on the earth”: animals in Byzantium
(Bilkent University, 2022-05)This thesis examines the relationship between the Byzantines and animals (in particular small ones like worms and bees) in terms of practical, socio-economic, and religious terms mainly using the written sources ... -
Sword vs. mountain: folk songs’ depiction of Ottoman settlement policies towards nomadic tribes in Çukurova
(Bilkent University, 2021-09)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 ... -
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 ... -
The United States’ nuclear non-proliferation failure in the 1970s: the cases of India and Pakistan
(Bilkent University, 2021-08)During the 1970s, the US government started becoming increasingly wary of the dangers of nuclear proliferation. The absence of a well-functioning international regime of non-proliferation compounded the United States’ fears ... -
Changing status of the Carolingian rulers: reflections on titulature and legitimacy, from early periods to the death of Charlemagne
(Bilkent University, 2021-07)This thesis is about the changes in the status of the Carolingian rulers from the early times to the end of the reign of Charlemagne. The gradual changes from the office of mayor of palace to king then to emperor are ... -
“Post tenebras lux” the Huguenot diaspora in Early Modern London and its reflections in refugee wills
(Bilkent University, 2021-08)Starting from the mid 16th century, Huguenots, namely French Protestants took refuge in countries that offered them toleration, due to persecution and suppression they were exposed to in France. Until the late 18th century, ... -
Treachery of silence: usage of pro- and anti-slavery rhetoric as a political propaganda in 18th- and 19th-century revolutions
(Bilkent University, 2021-08)From the 18th century onwards, slavery held a consistent place in the Western intellectual heritage. American, Haitian and Greek Revolutionaries used the term slavery to describe their conditions under the colonial powers ... -
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 ... -
Women and namus, as a regulative phenomenon, in early modern Ottoman society
(Bilkent University, 2021-08)In this thesis, the concept of namus (honor) as a regulative phenomenon in early modern Ottoman society and specifically for ordinary women are discussed. It focuses on which characteristic of women’s namus differed from ... -
Ottoman corsairs in the Central Mediterranean and the slave trade in the 16th century
(Bilkent University, 2021-08)This thesis aims to analyze the Ottoman corsairs and their role in the slave trade in the 16th century Mediterranean, and it concentrates on the corsair activity around the central Mediterranean during Suleiman I's reign. ... -
British ambitions in the Mediterranean and their effect on the allied quest for Turkish belligerency in WWII
(Bilkent University, 2020-12)Turkish belligerency which was not quite desired by Britain during the World War II was interwoven with the British ambitions in the Mediterranean including the post- World War II settlement of the region into the British ... -
An environmental reconsideration of Sagalassos from the Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages (1st– mid-7th century ce.)
(Bilkent University, 2020-12)At its core, environmental history is the study of a reciprocal relationship between that of humanity and its environment. The incorporation of environmental science to Byzantine studies has been gradual and has ...
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