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James Lyman Merrick's Aborted “Mission to the Mohammedans of Persia”

open access: yesThe Muslim World, EarlyView.
Abstract James Lyman Merrick (1803‐1866) served as a missionary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) in Persia between 1835 and 1845. He was America's first missionary to the Muslim world. Based on his field research on the Persians’ religious beliefs, he correctly predicted that the conversion of Persia's Muslims into ...
Hooman Estelami
wiley   +1 more source

NAȘTEREA UNEI COMUNITĂȚI DE NEGUSTORI. GRECII DIN MOLDOVA SECOLULUI AL XVI-LEA (I)

open access: yesAnalele Universităţii "Dunărea de Jos" din Galaţi. Fascicula XIX, Istorie
The 16th century brought a change for Moldova that marked its economic and social life throughout the early modern era. Local merchants (Moldavian subjects of different ethnicities) lost control of the principality's trade to strong foreign competition ...
Cristian Nicolae Apetrei
doaj   +1 more source

Building an Ottoman National Economy

open access: yesComparative Studies in Society and History
Abstract This article reveals late Ottoman (1876–1908) debates over agrarian policy in the empire’s Arab provinces that set the parameters for a fully articulated discourse of national economy emerging after the constitutional revolution of 1908.
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Coalescence of the Empire: Administration of the Provincial Economy in Ottoman Damascus, 1820-1860

open access: yes, 2023
This dissertation investigates the transformation of Ottoman sovereignty during the nineteenth century through the study of the administration of the provincial economy in Damascus between 1820 and 1860.
Bozluolcay, Murat
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The Ethnic Groups Military Recruitment Data

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Military conscription affects how countries expand political rights and fight wars, as well as their citizens' view of the state and socioeconomic outcomes. Until recently, conscription was studied in a simplified fashion, missing cases where it only applies to specific societal groups. We introduce the Ethnic Military Recruitment (EGMR) data,
Markéta Odlová, Marius Mehrl
wiley   +1 more source

Ottoman forestry: socio-economic aspect and its influence today Otomano florestal: aspecto socioeconômico e sua influência hoje

open access: yesCiência Rural, 2012
Forestry is an important subject because it supplies wood and timber for direct human consumption, in addition to its positive effects on global warming and on bio-diversity, with a history dating back to antiquity.
Sezgin Özden, Üstüner Birben
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The ‘State Patriotic Turn’: State Ideology and History According to the Russian Military Historical Society, 2022–2024

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Russian Military Historical Society (RMHS) was founded in 2012 on President Vladimir Putin's orders. Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the society's members have not only published propaganda to support the ‘special military operation’ but have discussed the need for a proper ‘state ideology’.
Kati Parppei
wiley   +1 more source

Engineered Identity: Albanian Nationalism and the Limits of Established Nationalism Theories

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article analyses the development of Albanian nationalism as a test case for assessing the explanatory reach of three major approaches to the study of nationalism: modernist, constructivist and historical‐comparative. Rather than privileging a single theoretical framework, the article places these approaches in dialogue, treating them as ...
Alda Kushi
wiley   +1 more source

Territorial Rights and the Debate About the Morality of Zionism

open access: yesPhilosophy &Public Affairs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper explores the view that, beyond particular wrongs committed by Zionism, the Zionist project was itself inherently wrong. I argue that the most plausible basis for this claim is the contention that Zionism disrespected the territorial rights of the local Arab population. By examining leading contemporary theories of territorial rights
Daniel Statman
wiley   +1 more source

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