The Cambridge companion to Ottoman history edited by Alexis Wick

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wick, Alexis, 1981- author, editor.

Series:

Cambridge companions to history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Turkey--History--Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918.

Turkey.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 418 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge New York Cambridge University Press 2025

Summary:

Why study Ottoman history? What are the available sources? And how can researchers begin locating, reading, and interpreting these? The Cambridge Companion to Ottoman History provides a broad introduction to the field, offering readers accessible outlines of its varied methods and approaches. Bringing together contributions from leading researchers, the volume considers the theoretical, methodological, and practical challenges faced by Ottoman historians. Including chapters from specialists in areas ranging from intellectual history to labor history and gender history, the Companion critically examines prior developments in the field, and indicates potential paths for future research. Beginning with a thorough grounding in the primary sources available, the Companion then turns to the perspectives and critical frames of the discipline. This volume is an essential teaching guide, and an invaluable entry point to the breadth and the possibilities of Ottoman history

Contents:

Setting off for the archives / Marc Aymes and Chris Markiewicz

Literary and biographical sources / Hatice Aynur

Chronicles and the court: history-writing / Ethan Menchinger

Letter collections and the central bureaucracy / Christine Woodhead

Whose archives? Legal courts and the question of the written document / Yavuz Aykan

Visual sources for the study of Ottoman history / Emine Fetvacı

Quantitative data and the economy / Pınar Ceylan and Metin Coşgel

An anthropologist among Ottomanists / Nada Moumtaz

Rural history / Stefan Winter

Labor history / Can Nacar and Hatice Yıldız

Environmental history / Chris Gratien

Social networks / Yonca Köksal

Digital history, GIS and spatial humanities: mapping historical population geography of two regions in Bulgaria, 1840-1934 / M. Erdem Kabadayı, Grigor Boykov, and Piet Garrets

Ottoman Diplomacy / Güneş Işıksel

Intellectual history / Kerem Tınaz and Oscar Aguirre-Mandujano

Approaching Ottoman cultural history: affect, performance and aurality / S. Aslıhan Gürbüzel and Jacob Olley

Ottoman science: institutions, genres, materials / A. Tunç Şen and Daniel Stolz

Imperial edges and those who live there: a reconsideration of the frontier in Ottoman history / Isa Blumi and Güneş Işıksel

Capital and province / Marc Aymes

On the shores of empire / Antonis Hadjikyriacou and Alexis Wick

Religion, millet, nation / Antonis Hadjikyriacou

Gender and sexuality / İpek Hüner and Başak Tuğ

Itinerant Ottomans: refugees and migrants as the engine of an empire's history / Isa Blumi

Humans, animals, plants / Yonca Köksal and Can Nacar

After the Ottomans? / Alexis Rappas and Alexis Wick

Bibliography

Notes:

Online resource; title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 30 May 2025)

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Print version:

ISBN:

9781009086202

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Restricted for use by site license