This thesis examines the role of scientific and technological input as a transformative and driving force in Ottoman cotton cultivation between 1840 and 1876. These two entities, with their controversial coexistence, make ...

This study examines how one of the most influential and controversial Ottoman scholars of all time, Birgivi Mehmed Efendi (929-981 / 1523-1573), was perceived and received by other Ottoman readers and writers in the centuries ...

Racism was one of the most significant ideologies of the nineteenth century. Whole Europe was under the influence of racism all during the nineteenth century and this influence was at its peak in the World War II. Biological ...

This study examines the significance of Islamic cosmography in Ottoman geographical literature and its role in the formation of the pre-modern Ottoman worldview in the light of the Ottoman translation of the fifteenth ...

In this thesis I shall specifically examine the parts in Hezarfen Hüseyin’s universal history, about Rome and Byzantium. Hezarfen Hüseyin (d.1691) was one of the prominent new intellectuals of the seventeenth century. He ...

This sectorial based market study, analyzes the commercial life in Istanbul at the turn of our century. In other words, the thesis concentrates on merchants and workers dealing with international trade, market mechanisms, ...

The study of gifts, a classical theme of research in economic anthropology, involve, in broad lines, a study of the respective constitution of objects and subjects in exchange. Through gift-giving, the officialization of ...

This thesis tries to analyze economic thoughts advocated by Sadık Rıfat Paşa, who occupied significant state positions in the first half of the nineteenth century and was accepted as one of the Tanzimat reformers. While ...

This study aims to examine the changing nature of the agrarian relations in Habsburg-occupied Bosnia. To this end, it analyses the administrative and legal practices of the Austro-Hungarian administration regarding landed ...