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Exporting Antiquities and Protecting Monuments: Beginnings of Ottoman legislation on the protection of ancient heritage as recorded by Polish travelers

Studies in Ancient Art and Civilization
In the 19th century, the number of European travelers visiting the Anatolian Peninsula and Constantinople was on the increase. The interest they took in the Greek-Roman past of these areas resulted in intensive digging of the ancient sites and led to ...
Dominika Dziewczopolska
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Religio‐Governmental Infrastructures: Islam, Infrastructure, and Populist Mobilization in Turkey

American Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 2, Page 272-283, June 2026.
ABSTRACT Turkish mosques are staffed by state‐appointed imams and callers to prayer whose practices are regulated through a complex bureaucratic network operating on an internet‐based data‐management and communication infrastructure. A centralized mosque loudspeaker network enables the broadcast of calls to prayer and other Islamic recitations across ...
Hikmet Kocamaner
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Racialized Labor Intermediation: Managing the “Threat” of Kurdish Workers on Turkish Farms

American Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 2, Page 381-392, June 2026.
ABSTRACT Farm labor intermediaries in Turkey have been at the heart of maintaining a precarious and low‐wage migrant labor force for capitalist agriculture since the 19th century. This labor force has been predominantly comprised of Kurds, a people racialized as “savage,” “racially impure,” and “traitors of the Turkish nation” since the beginning of ...
Deniz Duruiz
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Beyond Negated Identity: Mediating the World History Classroom through Adorno's Negative Dialectics

Educational Theory, Volume 76, Issue 3, Page 395-419, June 2026.
Abstract This article centers on Adorno's negative dialectics to account for experiences of alienation and marginalization within the world history classroom. It begins with the problem of how marginalization occurs in high school world history classrooms with predominantly Black and Latinx students.
Tadashi Dozono
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'Pearls' of the nineteenth-century: from therapeutic actors to global commodities medicinal leeches in the Ottoman Empire. [PDF]

Med Hist, 2023
Arabacı B.
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Slave Trade in the Indian Ocean: Expanding the SlaveVoyages Database

History Compass, Volume 24, Issue 2-3, June 2026.
ABSTRACT While the trans‐Atlantic slave trade has been thoroughly documented in a database of slaving voyages freely available to the public, few comparable resources focus on the traffic across the Indian Ocean and Asia exist. This article seeks to change that picture by discussing the preliminary findings of a research project aimed at expanding the ...
Daniel B. Domingues da Silva, Jane Hooper   +1 more
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Peasants into Muslims: Poverty and conversions to Islam in Ottoman Bosnia

The Economic History Review, Volume 79, Issue 2, Page 600-633, May 2026.
Abstract Whilst economic historians have invested substantial effort into understanding the economic consequences of religion, they have invested less effort into understanding the determinants of religious affiliation. The lack of knowledge about determinants of religious affiliation seems particularly striking in the case of Southeastern Europe ...
Leonard Kukić, Yasin Arslantas
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Wealth inequality and epidemics in the Republic of Venice (1400–1800)

The Economic History Review, Volume 79, Issue 2, Page 811-849, May 2026.
Abstract This article analyses wealth inequality in the Republic of Venice during 1400–1800. The availability of a large database of homogeneous inequality measurements allows us to produce the most in‐depth study of the factors affecting inequality at the local level available thus far for any preindustrial society.
Guido Alfani, Matteo Di Tullio, Mattia Fochesato   +2 more
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Odnos bosanske uleme prema reformama u Osmanskoj carevini U XIX vijeku

Anali Gazi Husrev-Begove Biblioteke, 1996
Modem reforms of the government, legal, religious and military insti- tutions of the Ottoman Empire began with the rule of sultan Mahmud II (1808-1839), and reached their peak in the period of Tanzimat (1839-1876).
Fikret Karčić
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Strategic materials and state capacity in Renaissance Italy: The economic policies of ‘Roman saltpetre’ procurement

The Economic History Review, Volume 79, Issue 2, Page 757-780, May 2026.
Abstract Demonstrating the existence of a soaring demand for strategic materials in fifteenth‐century Rome, the article pioneers research in the late medieval trade in saltpetre, the irreplaceable, rare component of gunpowder, indispensable for waging war following the diffusion of artillery technology.
Fabrizio Antonio Ansani
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