Browsing Theses - Department of History by Issue Date
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The life of Köprülü Fazıl Mustafa Pasha and his grand vizierate
(Bilkent University, 1996)The subject of the study is the life and the grand vizierate period of Koprulu Fazil Mustafa Pasha who belonged to eminent Koprulu family that provided many statesmen for the Ottoman Empire in the second half of the sisteenth ... -
Conflicts between the Dutch merchants and the Ottoman Local Authorities according to the "Felemenk 'Ahdname Defteri" dated 1091/1680
(Bilkent University, 1996)The Dutch republic, in the seventeenth century, was a global naval power with her special substantially big ships, as well as her commercial and financial basis. While the Dutch State, i.e. the United Provinces, was breaking ... -
Ottoman society and state in the light of the fatwas of İbn Kemal
(Bilkent University, 1996)The fetvas are good histarical sources for shedding light on the society and the state. This study is an attempt to use the fetvas for such a purpose. For example, by looking at the fetvas of the Shaikhu'l-İslam İbn Kemal ... -
A comparative study of sharecropping system throughout the ages in the ottoman empire
(Bilkent University, 1996-09)In the Ottoman Empire, the status of sharecroppers has changed throughout the ages. In the classical age, the war captives acquired in the conquered lands were settled as sharecropper slaves on the lands belonged directly ... -
Ottoman Fatwâ : an essay on the legal consultation (ifta') in the Ottoman Empire
(Bilkent University, 1997)Legal consultation {/fla) is one important legal institution in Islamic legal culture since the consolidation o f the Islamic law. In the Ottoman empire legal consultation was carried out by the chief m ufti and the ... -
The Satanic ingredients in the seventeenth century witchcraft debate
(Bilkent University, 1997)This Thesis is a study on the witchcraft debates of seventeenth century England. Throughout the study a special emphasis is given to the debate over the existence of alliance of witches with the Devil. This conception ... -
"Church in danger" : The views of two eighteenth-century high-churchmen
(Bilkent University, 1997)This thesis deals with two British Tory Highchurchmen, namely Charles Leslie and William Jones of Nayland. The fonner has produced his works during the Iate seventeenth-century and the early eighteenth-century; whereas ... -
Highway improvement and agricultural mechanization: Turkish high priority economic development projects in the framework of "free" world recovery program and their repercussions
(Bilkent University, 1997)Postwar era witnessed profound changes, such as the rapid dissolution of the Grand Alliance, an accelerated move towards a bipolar world order. As the leader of the "free" world countries, the U.S. launched a tripartite ... -
Aspects of thirteenth century Franciscan education with special regard to the province of Anglia
(Bilkent University, 1997)The transformation of the Order of Friars Minor in the course of the thirteenth century is well known-from a group consisting mostly of laymen vowed to poverty and mendicancy, into well-established Order throughout Europe, ... -
John Whitaker : a representative of Tory discourse in eighteenth-century Britain
(Bilkent University, 1997)ln terms of historiography, eighteenth century can be deseribed as a cmcial period in the history of Britain. However, it should be noted that, due to ideological reasons influencing histoncal research, this era of British ... -
The agricultural structure of the Foça region in the mid-nineteenth century : an examination of the çift-hane system and the big farms in the light of the temettü defters, 1844-45 (H 1260-61)
(Bilkent University, 1997)This thesis hopes to examine the agricultural structure of the Foca region (near Izmir)in the mid nineteenth century in the light of the temettu defters, until now a largely unexploited source. The aim of this thesis in ... -
Josiah Tucker: an eighteenth-century pamphleteer
(Bilkent University, 1997-03)This thesis deals with the ideas of Dean Josiah Tucker, especially in economic and political terms. The historical context of his thought is eighteenth-century Britain. A study of Tucker’s works reveal that he wrote ... -
Political thought in the beginning of the Ottoman Empire as expressed in Ahmed bin Husameddin Amasi's Kitab-i Miratu`l-Muluk (1406)
(Bilkent University, 1998)Ahmed bin Husameddin Amasi’s Mirât al-Muluk was one of the earliest sources on the political literature of the Ottoman World, it was written in 1406 and submitted to Mehmet 1 (1413- 1421). Unlike the later Ottoman ... -
The failure of the US reservation policy for the Native Americans : the Navajo at Bosque Redondo, 1864-68
(Bilkent University, 1999)The objective of this thesis is to present the Bosque Redondo Reservation experience of the Navajo Indians (1864-68) as a failure of the United States Indian Reservation Policy. The thesis is divided into three chapters. ... -
Philanthropy and race relations in 1920s Chicago
(Bilkent University, 1999)Tliis thesis is a study on the nature of philantluopy and its reflection on improving relations between races in 1920s Chicago. Julius Roscnwald played a pivotal role in helping create links between white philantlu'opists ... -
The evolution of money in the Ottoman Empire, 1326-1922
(Bilkent University, 1999)This thesis examines the evolution of the Ottoman monetary system from the earliest coinages until the end of the empire. It also summarizes the types of coinage and money in use over the entire period. In this reference, ... -
A life between piety and politics : Azîz Mahmŭd Hüdâyî (ca 1543-1628)
(Bilkent University, 2000)Aziz Mahmud Hüdayi was one of the most important spiritual, political and intellectual figures of the Iate sixteenth and early seventeenth century of the Ottoman Empire and his memory is stili alive in the present-day ... -
Jefferson's republic : the Declaration of Independence, Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom and the University of Virginia
(Bilkent University, 2000)Thomas Jefferson is one of the leading figures of the era of the establishment of the United States of America. Like the other founding fathers of the country, there are still unexplored parts of his ideas, and the ... -
İltizam in the fetvas of Ottoman şeyhülislams
(Bilkent University, 2000)iltizam, farming out revenues to individuals in exchange of an agreed sum of money for a limited period, had been one of the chief means of raising revenues for the Ottoman treasury. The decline of the timer system after ... -
Coverage of the Vietnam antiwar movement in Time and Newsweek, 1965-71
(Bilkent University, 2000)The impact of the news coverage of the antiwar movement was an important issue during the Vietman War. I tried to uncover the attitudes of the press towards the protesters by examining the two major news magazines Time and ...
