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Borrowing is not only a practice of individuals and corporations, but the states also borrow to afford their expenditures. Similar to individuals, the states have borrowed since ancient times. Most of such loans have been at interest.
Cem Eyerci
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‘Greening’ is often depicted as an inherently benevolent practice, turning arid stretches of land into arable and fertile plots. However, by considering a longer history of place and taking archival records into account, such transformations are rendered more complex and, often, more fraught.
Zsuzsanna Ihar
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The Gender of Fossil Fuels: Oil and Domestic Perils in Mandate Palestine
ABSTRACT This article explores the gender dynamics behind the rise of kerosene – an oil derivative – as the main domestic fuel in Mandate Palestine. It argues that these dynamics were constitutive in determining who began to use oil, where and for what purposes, in turn demonstrating that women in Palestine were the promoters and targets of a campaign ...
Shira Pinhas
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Representations of the Ottoman Empire in the West: Abdülhamid II’s Portrait in the French Press
This article examines representations of Ottoman Sultan Abdülhamid II in the French press. Analyzing these representations will help one to better understand the Western perceptions of the Ottoman Empire and the Orient.
Selim Argun, Hatice Rumeysa Dursun
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HE OTTOMAN INFLUENCE ON THE ARTISTIC AND CULTURAL LIFE IN MOROCCO DURING THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY [PDF]
: The present research aims at observing the most important cultural developments in Morocco in the contemporary period through the transfer of the Ottoman influences issued from the East.
ROUABHI Nadhir, ZENNOU Salah Eddine, DAHMANI Youssouf & HALIMI Mustapha
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Evaluating the Copies of Şikârî’s Karamannâme
Many sources are used to obtain information about history. The oral and written resources from civilizations, such as inscriptions, dictionaries, and literary works, are all important for getting an idea about the past.
Mizan Coşkun Özgür
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Gendering Late Ottoman Society and Reconstructing Gender in the Women's Press
ABSTRACT This article analyses the construction of gender differences in the late Ottoman Empire through women's periodicals, which acted as a key medium in the redefinition of gender roles. It examines how new understandings of gender roles emerged amid rapid transformations in traditional societal structures, particularly in the women’s press.
Tuğba Karaman
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M. E. Grant Duff, Philosophic Liberalism and the Global Liberal Cause
Abstract Historians disagree about how best to conceptualize nineteenth‐century British Liberalism in relation to its international contexts. This article argues that we can better understand the patterns involved by interrogating individuals who bridged the worlds of partisan politics and elaborated thought.
Alex Middleton
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This is a review of the thirty five historians who wrote political history at the Byzantine Empire and the beginning of the Ottoman rule on Constantinople.This is a review of the thirty five historians who wrote political history at the Byzantine Empire ...
Martínez Lacy, Ricardo
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'Thou glorious kingdome, thou chiefe of empires': Persia in seventeenth-century travel literature [PDF]
Bringing together a range of little-considered materials, this article assesses the portrayal of Persia in seventeenth-century travel literature and drama.
Houston, Chloe
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