Browsing Dept. of History - Master's degree 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, 2018-07)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, 2019-08)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 ... -
The American perception of the Ottomans in the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries
(Bilkent University, 1998)The objective of this thesis is to present the American perceptions of the Ottomans in the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries and to explain the origin of the images of Turkey in the United States. Sources include ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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, 2019-08)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 ... -
“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 ... -
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 ... -
The anti-monastic reaction in the reigns of Edward the Martyr and Æthelred II, 975-993: a time of opportunism
(Bilkent University, 2020-08)This thesis aims to provide a new insight into the so-called anti-monastic reaction which took place after King Edgar’s death in 975 by analysing all the available evidence from fourteen different monasteries and ... -
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 ...
