Browsing Dept. of History - Ph.D. / Sc.D. by Title
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Body, disease and late Ottoman literature : debates on Ottoman muslim family in the Tanzimat period (1839-1908)
(Bilkent University, 2008)This study analyzes the development and transformation of Ottoman population policies and medical regulations together with their social impact in the Tanzimat Period. It also aims to document the transformation of Ottoman ... -
British philosophical history and the empires of antiquity
(Bilkent University, 2006)Although eighteenth-century British empire may seem a topic much exhausted by historians, there is still room for fresh primary sources and new approaches. Ancient Greek and Roman histories published in eighteenth-century ... -
The city as a reflecting mirror : being and urbanite in the 19th century Ottoman Empire
(Bilkent University, 2015)The physical and social transformations taking place in İstanbul, İzmir and Salonica throughout the 19th century Ottoman Empire had been the subject of many studies, however, the degree to which urban population identified ... -
Contested nationalisms : Turkish nationalist propaganda in the Sanjak of Alexandretta
(Bilkent University, 2015-12)This thesis analyzes the Turkish nationalist propaganda carried out in the Sanjak of Alexandretta during the process of annexation to demonstrate that the Sanjak provides a special case for the study of Republican Turkish ... -
Court chivalry and politics : nominations and elections to the order of the Garter : 1461-83
(Bilkent University, 2007)This thesis discusses the probable causes behind the nominations and elections of the knights to the Order of the Garter during the reigns of Henry VI, Edward IV and Richard III. The Study argues that various considerations ... -
Danubian border in the second half of the 16th century : revolution and transformation, tradition and continuation on the eve of a new era
(Bilkent University, 2013)This study focuses on pre-Ottoman Turkic presence and their remainings as the first phase of the Turkic presence and examines how the Ottomans adapted, re-organized and re-structured the existing military organizations, ... -
Depicting the enemy : Russians and Ottomans in the press during the First World War
(Bilkent University, 2007)The intricate course of events that led both the Russian and Ottoman Empires towards the Great War had been the culmination of long-lasting domestic and international developments, which were reflected in their policies ... -
Family and estate : the Slupica family and Kuna 1390's - 1640's : a case study on the Ruthenian nobility in Eastern Podolia
(Bilkent University, 2005)The subject of this thesis is the Ruthenian family of the Shipica representing the upper gentry group of lords and their Kuna estate in Eastern Podolia (Bratslavshchyna). So far both the area itself, as well as, the ... -
The first Dutch ambassador in Istanbul: Cornelis Haga and the Dutch capitulations of 1612
(Bilkent University, 2003)This dissertation evaluates the granting of capitulations to the Dutch Republic by the Ottoman Sultan in 1612, and early years of first Dutch ambassador Cornelis Haga. The United Provinces, formed by seven provinces of the ... -
Friendship, crisis and estrangement : US-Italian relations, 1871-1920
(Bilkent University, 2007)In the 1870s, the united Kingdom of Italy brought together nearly the whole Italian peninsula under a single flag, and the United States left behind a civil war and strengthened the country and its institutions. This ... -
A gate to the emotional world of pre-modern Ottoman society: an attempt to write Ottoman history from “the inside out”
(Bilkent University, 2016-05)Beginning in the 1980’s, the research produced on various fields of knowledge including history, neuroscience, sociology, psychology and anthropology asserted that emotions are not only a product of biochemical but also ... -
Hamidian epic: war literature in the late nineteenth century ottoman empire
(Bilkent University, 2016-05)This study explores the ways in which epic literature represented, supported, and legitimized the Ottoman regime and its ideology in the late nineteenth century. During the Hamidian Era (1876–1908), reinventing an authentic ... -
The historical archaeology of the Early Ottomans : a new perspective on arguments about the foundation of the Ottoman Empire
(Bilkent University, 2015)This dissertation aims to evaluate the socio-economic structure of the Early Ottoman Period, and is based on an archaeological approach to reconstructing the early Ottoman state and its foundation. In this context, the ... -
The history of John Galt : past and present in the wake of the Enlightenment
(Bilkent University, 2003)The placing of the history of Enlightenment ideas and their implications in a wider social context has been an important characteristic of Enlightenment studies for some time. This thesis offers John Galt, the early ... -
Interpreting warfare and knighthood in late medieval France : writers and their sources in the reign of king Charles VI (1380-1422)
(Bilkent University, 2012)This thesis makes an analysis of different views on warfare and knighthood focusing on the late Middle Ages, though looking back to what came before, with an argument that a ‘new view’ was held by certain authors during ... -
Islam in Albanian lands during the first two centuries of the Ottoman rule
(Bilkent University, 2003)This dissertation provides a detailed picture of the religious situation in Albanian lands before the Ottoman conquest and analyzes the conditions upon the establishment of Ottoman rule and the initial stages of ... -
Jihad in a context of shifting alliances and enmities : study on the relations of the early Artukids and crusaders as reflected in contemporary Muslim and Christian historiography, 1098-1124
(Bilkent University, 2013)This thesis is a study of the relations of the early Artukids with the Crusaders, with the aim of seeing how they fit into the general context of the reaction of the Muslim world to the Frankish presence in the Middle ... -
Koca Nişancı" of Kanuni : Celalzade Mustafa Çelebi, Bureaucracy and "Kanun" in the reign of Süleyman the magnificent (1520-1566)
(Bilkent University, 2006)This dissertation analyzes the development of Ottoman administration and its consequences in political reasoning under the reign of Sultan Süleyman in the light of career and works of nişancı Celālzāde Mustafa Çelebi. ... -
"The letter kills, but the spirit gives life" : the rise of learning in the Franciscan order, 1210-1310
(Bilkent University, 2001)The historiography of medieval Franciscan education has been dominated by two general approaches that appear unjustifiable. The first has been to assume that the Franciscan educational organization was a later copy of ... -
"Made in Massachusetts" : converting hides and skins into leather and Turkish immigrants into industrial laborers (1860s-1920s)
(Bilkent University, 2010)Early twentieth-century America witnessed a large influx of immigrants largely from eastern and southern Europe as well as the Near East. The major “pull” factor stimulating the growth of migration was the rise of several ...
