Browsing Theses - Department of History by Title
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"Acta est fabula, plaudite!" : the role of women in late medieval England : the evidence from wills
(Bilkent University, 2009)The purpose of this thesis is to provide an insight into the role and place of women in late medieval England through a qualitative and quantitative examination of 403 women’s wills from 1300 to 1500. The sample used in ... -
The administrative, economic and social relations of Sofia in the 18th century: an essay of the spatial analysis
(Bilkent University, 2018-09)In this thesis, Sofia which was the pasha sandjaghi of the Rumelian Eyalet in the 18th century is discussed. The administrative, social and economic relations of Sofia are studied within the context of spatial analysis. ... -
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 ... -
Ahmet Cevdet Paşa and Islamic modernism
(Bilkent University, 2002)The ideas to introduce an Islamic Modernization in the political and social realms of the Ottoman Empire started as a reaction to the westernization attempts of the Tanzimat bureaucrats. It was not a quick response to the ... -
"Alasse, whatte Truste Ys in this world?" : Lancastrian and Yorkist history writing in and English chronicle
(Bilkent University, 2005)At the National Library of Wales a manuscript (MS 21608) has been found recently which contains a text that is identical with what John S. Davies published in 1856 under the title of the Davies Chronicle and Davies’s ... -
Ambassador at war: John J. Muccio and the Korean War (1948-1952)
(Bilkent University, 2019-09)The United States of America sent eight ministers to Korea’s Chosŏn Dynasty and Korean Empire from 1883 until 1905. John J. Muccio was the first Ambassador that the U.S. dispatched to the Republic of Korea. What made Muccio ... -
American cinema and popular representations of women in early Republican Turkey
(Bilkent University, 2013)This thesis focuses on the relationship between American cinema and Turkish woman in the 1930s. Along with political reforms, there were cultural transformations in the society in the 1930s in Turkey. One of the dimension ... -
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 propaganda in Turkey as economic military and cultural warfare against Germany during the Second World War
(Bilkent University, 2009)This thesis analyzes American propaganda in Turkey during the Second World War through the increasing economic, military and cultural relations between the two countries. Germany was very influential in Turkey’s economic, ... -
American Turkish relations 1945-1960 : the roots of a long-term alliance
(Bilkent University, 2003)The United States and Turkey made an important alliance during the early Cold War and their alliance had an important role in the course of the Cold War. By the end of World War II, the United States felt the need to ... -
American women's foreign mission movement : "cooperation of eve with the redeemer" in evangelical missions
(Bilkent University, 2006)This thesis aims to depict American women’s “indispensable” participation in the United States’ foreign mission movement. The emphasis in this thesis is on missionary wives and single missionary women both in mission ... -
An analysis of African American intellectuals, 1900-1972
(Bilkent University, 2001)The United States in the twentieth century experienced a series of changes in terms of culture, economics, population and social movements. The black civil rights movement was one of the most important social movements ... -
An analysis of African American, feminist, and native American movements in the 1960s and 1970s
(Bilkent University, 2001)The purpose of the theses is to illustrate the analogy among African American, feminist, and Native American protest movements of the 1960s and 1970s in the United States, and particularly to examine the division between ... -
An analysis study on the implementations of gedik, esham and muzara’a
(Bilkent University, 2019-09)This thesis examines there economic practices (gedik, esham and muzara’a) that emerged in the Ottoman Empire in the modern period (18th and 19th centuries) and the relationship between them. This study claims that these ... -
The Annals of change : a comparative study of two fourteenth-century English chronicles
(Bilkent University, 2003)In the late fourteenth century, history writing in England was in the process of change.There was a shift from the monastic chronicles in Latin to secular chronicles in the vernacular.This historiographical transition was ... -
Anti-Revolutionary conspiracy theory in the age of the French Revolution : a historical context
(Bilkent University, 2004)The thesis deals with those conspiracy theories about the origins of the French Revolution, which were influential in Britain in the period of the French Revolutionary Wars at the end of the eighteenth century. It focuses ... -
An architectural and conceptual analysis of Mesopotamian temples from the Ubaid to the old Babylonian period
(Bilkent University, 2007)This study attempts to explore the architecture of Mesopotamian temples from the Ubaid to the Old Babylonian period. It analyses the ways in which the layout of the temples changed and developed through time. It argues ... -
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, ... -
An Ayan family in Uşak: Paşaoğlullari hanedani
(Bilkent University, 2017-01)The purpose of this research is to investigate the history of the Paşaoğulları family; a medium-scale local family that lived and flourished in Uşak in Western Anatolia. It can be said that investigating the history of ... -
Baku expedition of 1917-1918 : a study of the Ottoman policy towards the Caucasus
(Bilkent University, 2007)The Ottoman expedition to Baku has central importance in Caucasus between the Bolshevik Revolution and end of the WWI. Since the Ottoman expedition to Baku was the most concrete action towards domination of the area, it ...
