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Publication Metadata only Turkey and the Soviet Union during World War II: diplomacy, discord and international relations(Cambridge Univ Press, 2021) Department of History; Barlas, Dilek; Faculty Member; Department of History; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; 4172N/APublication Metadata only The Armenian genocide and its denial: a review of recent scholarship(Cambridge Univ Press, 2015) Department of History; Baker, Mark R.; Faculty Member; Department of History; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; N/AN/APublication Metadata only The barber of damascus: nouveau literacy in the eighteenth-century Ottoman levant(Cambridge Univ Press, 2015) N/A; Department of History; Köksal, Yonca; Faculty Member; Department of History; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; 53333N/APublication Metadata only Negotiating railroad safety in the late Ottoman Empire: the state, railroad companies, trainmen, and trespassers(Cambridge Univ Press, 2019) N/A; Department of History; Nacar, Can; Faculty Member; Department of History; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; 53168This study examines different approaches taken in the late Ottoman Empire to deal with the risks and dangers posed by railroads. Like its counterparts in Europe and the United States, the Ottoman state actively sought to protect individuals against railroad risks. for this purpose, it mandated the use of certain devices meant to facilitate the safe flow of railroad traffic and introduced measures that aimed to discipline railroaders and pedestrians into behaving appropriately. However, the state was not the only actor that struggled to address railroad risks. Railroad companies, primarily to advance their economic interests, incorporated technologies that considerably reduced the risk of collisions. Yet economic concerns also sometimes hampered investments in railroad safety. for instance, the manner in which trespassing cases were handled by accident investigation committees and courts allowed the companies to avoid their obligations with respect to fencing around railroad tracks. as a result, it was easy for pedestrians to use tracks near their homes and workplaces as pathways. Finally, the article also shows that in performing their duties, trainmen enjoyed considerable freedom from control by railroad managers. This freedom was further reinforced by the shortage of experienced and skilled labor in the Ottoman railroad industry.Publication Metadata only Empire of difference: the Ottomans in comparative perspective(Homer Academic Publ House, 2011) N/A; Department of History; Nacar, Can; Faculty Member; Department of History; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; 53168This book is a comparative study of imperial organization and longevity that assesses Ottoman successes as well as failures against those of other empires with similar characteristics. Barkey examines the Ottoman Empire's social organization and mechanisms of rule at key moments of its history, emergence, imperial institutionalization, remodeling, and transition to nation-state, revealing how the empire managed these moments, adapted, and averted crises and what changes made it transform dramatically. The flexible techniques by which the Ottomans maintained their legitimacy, the cooperation of their diverse elites both at the center and in the provinces, as well as their control over economic and human resources were responsible for the longevity of this particular “negotiated empire”. Her analysis illuminates topics that include imperial governance, imperial institutions, imperial diversity and multiculturalism, the manner in which dissent is handled and/or internalized, and the nature of state society negotiationsPublication Metadata only A tribe as an economic actor: the Cihanbeyli tribe and the meat provisioning of Istanbul in the early Tanzimat era(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2019) Polatel, Mehmet; Department of History; Köksal, Yonca; Faculty Member; Department of History; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; 53333This article studies how the Cihanbeyli tribe became a crucial economic actor for the meat supply of Istanbul, by focusing on a conflict between the tribe's leader, Alisan Bey, and the Russian trader David Savalan, which lasted from the 1840s to the 1850s in and around the province of Ankara. Two important processes of the early Tanzimat era had an impact on the Cihanbeyli's role in animal trade. First, as part of the centralization project of the Tanzimat, the Cihanbeyli tribe was sedentarized in the 1840s and 1850s. Second, although the Ottoman state adopted liberal economic policies during the Tanzimat, the provisioning of meat to the imperial capital continued until 1857. Therefore, the article examines the Cihanbeyli's role in the animal trade in the light of these administrative and economic changes. Our findings support the argument that tribes were an integral part of the imperial economy, politics, and society. The dependence of the Ottoman state on the supply of meat by the Cihanbeyli increased significantly from the seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth century. This opposes the conventional view that posits tribes as primordial forms hindering economic and social development in the modernization processes of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.Publication Metadata only The Red Sea: in search of lost space(Cambridge Univ Press, 2017) N/A; Department of History; Rappas, Alexis; Faculty Member; Department of History; College of Social Sciences and Humanities; 50773N/A