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Franz Cumont’s Syrian tour: a Belgian archaeologist in the Ottoman empire [PDF]
, 2013 This paper highlights the Western scientific traveller as an intermediary between Orient and Occident around the turn of the nineteenth century by presenting a case study on the Belgian archaeologist and historian of religions, Franz Cumont (1868-1947 ...
Scheerlinck, Eline
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Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Migration is individually and collectively a challenging but also a transformative praxis and process. In my proposal, I present these in the context of transnational migration of two multigenerational families whose pioneers originally migrated from Turkey to Germany.
Halil Can
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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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İnsan & Toplum, 2018 In 1914, the Ottoman Empire was involved in the World War I, ended with economic disruptions due to trade restrictions and higher risks on production after four years.
Avni Önder Hanedar
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Toxic waters: Ibrahim Hazboun and the struggle for a Dead Sea concession, 1913-1948 [PDF]
, 2011 In 1930, the British Colonial Office signed a formal agreement with Moshe Novomeysky, a Jewish Russian mining engineer from Siberia and committed Zionist, creating Palestine Potash Ltd (PPL). This company was given exclusive rights over the extraction of
Norris, Jacob
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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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The Long Road: An Analysis of the 1557 Book of Mirrors by Seydi Ali Reis
, 2012 In 1552, Piri Reis was relieved from the Admiralty of the Ottoman Imperial Navy. Seydi Ali Reis was appointed to replace him and his assignment was to return fifteen galleys from Basra to Egypt. This should have been a relatively short journey.
Weiss, Julian N.
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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 +2 more
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BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA REFUGEES IN THE 19th and 20th CENTURIES IN THE LIGHT OF OTTOMAN DOCUMENTS [PDF]
, 2013 One of the most tragic events in human history, migration, no doubt, left deep traceson communities who were forced to perform it. Some of the migrations are causedby natural causes such as earthquake, flood, famine, disease and some of themoriginating ...
Mehtap Nasiroglu
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Gardens in the Air: A Reexamination of the Ottoman Tulip Age
, 2013 Scholars have long considered the “Tulip Age” to be a sort of Ottoman renaissance—a golden age initiated by the 1718 Treaty of Passarowitz and lasted until the Anti-Tulip Rebellion in 1730.
Fry, Rachel R.
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