The Cambridge Companion to Ottoman History

by Alexis Wick (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781009092661
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	01/31/2025
Series:	Cambridge Companions to History
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	8 MB

About the Author

Alexis Wick is an Associate Professor of History at Koç University in Istanbul. His research focuses on Ottoman and Arab history and historiography, the history of concepts, and spatial history. Wick is the author of The Red Sea: In Search of Lost Space (2016).

Table of Contents

Preface Alexis Wick; Introduction: a life in ottoman history Suraiya Faroqhi; Part I. Sources and Structures: 1. Setting off for the archives Marc Aymes and Christopher Markiewicz; 2. Literary and biographical sources Hatice Aynur; 3. Chronicles and the court: history-writing Ethan Menchinger; 4. Letter collections and the central bureaucracy Christine Woodhead; 5. Whose archives? legal courts and the question of the written document Yavuz Aykan; 6. Visual sources for the study of ottoman history Emine Fetvacı; 7. Quantitative data and the economy Pınar Ceylan and Metin Coşgel; 8. An anthropologist among ottomanists Nada Moumtaz; Part II. Perspectives and Methods: 9. Rural history Stefan Winter; 10. Labor history Can Nacar and Hatice Yıldız; 11. Environmental history Chris Gratien; 12. Social networks Yonca Köksal; 13. Digital history, GIS and Spatial humanities: mapping historical population geography of two regions in Bulgaria, 1840–1934 M. Erdem Kabadayı, Grigor Boykov and Piet Gerrits; 14. Ottoman diplomacy Güneş Işıksel; 15. Intellectual history Kerem Tınaz and Oscar Aguirre-Mandujano; 16. Approaching ottoman cultural history: affect, performance and aurality Aslıhan Gürbüzel and Jacob Olley; 17. Ottoman science: institutions, genres, materials A. Tunç Şen and Daniel Stolz; Part III. Frames and Actors: 18. Imperial edges and those who live there: a reconsideration of the frontier in ottoman history Isa Blumi and Güneş Işıksel; 19. Capital and province Marc Aymes; 20. On the shores of empire Antonis Hadjikyriacou and Alexis Wick; 21. Religion, millet, nation Antonis Hadjikyriacou; 22. Gender and sexuality İpek Hüner Cora and Başak Tuğ; 23. Itinerant ottomans: refugees and migrants as the engine of an empire's history Isa Blumi; 24. Humans, animals, plants Yonca Köksal and Can Nacar; 25. After the ottomans? Alexis Rappas and Alexis Wick; Bibliography.