Results 61 to 70 of about 26,769 (245)

‘The Tragedy of a Small Nation’: Alexander Devine and British Perspectives on the Montenegrin Question, 1918–24

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the pro‐Montenegrin political campaigns of Alexander Devine, a schoolmaster and journalist who became Montenegro's leading British advocate following its incorporation into the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes after the First World War.
ROSS CAMERON
wiley   +1 more source

DECOLONIZING CREATIVE GEOGRAPHIES OF ART BIENNIALS: A Study of Istanbul's Yeditepe Biennial through the Cultural Politics of Turkish Islamic Nationalism

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the Yeditepe Biennial—Turkey's first Islamic and traditional arts biennial—as a creative festival shaped by the socio‐political and spatial dynamics of Turkish‐Islamist nationalism. Counterposed against the Istanbul Biennial and the Western‐oriented secular cultural legacy of the Turkish Republic, the Yeditepe Biennial ...
Hulya Arik, Sabrien Amrov
wiley   +1 more source

Major trends in agricultural development of the Ottoman Empire in the late third of the 19th – early 20th centuries

open access: yesГуманитарные и юридические исследования
Introduction. The issue of agricultural development in the Ottoman Empire has not been widely reflected in domestic and partly in foreign historiography.
E. R. Khalimbekova
doaj   +1 more source

The Kosovo Vilayet in the geostrategic plans of the Ottoman Empire and the Eastern Question [PDF]

open access: yesHistorijski pogledi
During the 19th century, particularly in its second half, significant changes occurred in international relations and the territorial organization of Europe and the world.
Sait Š. Šabotić
doaj   +1 more source

The Cambridge history of Turkey volume 2: The Ottoman empire as a world power, 1453–1603

open access: yes, 2011
With the conquest of Constantinople and the extinguishing of the Byzantine Empire in 1453, the Ottoman Empire moved into a new phase of expansion during which it emerged in the sixteenth century as a dominant political player on the world scene.
Faroqhi, S.N., Fleet, K.
core   +1 more source

Pseudonyms, Propaganda, and Prints: The Life and Political Caricatures of William Dent, 1782–931

open access: yesJournal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract ‘Dent was probably an amateur and nothing is known of his life’, state Bryant and Heneage. Despite contributing to caricature's ‘golden age’, William Dent remains overlooked compared to contemporaries like James Gillray. Dent's extensive portfolio (1782–93) and rumoured role as a Pittite propagandist have not secured his place in the canon of ...
Callum D. Smith
wiley   +1 more source

Inflation Dynamics and Its Sources in The Ottoman Empire: 1586-1913 [PDF]

open access: yes
This study examines the dynamics and determinants of inflation in the Ottoman Empire during the 1586-1913 period. There might be two main reasons for inflation: fiscal expansion and monetary expansion where the monetary expansion could be generated ...
Aslý Günay, Hakan Berument
core  

The Empire is dead, long live the Empire! Long-run persistence of trust and corruption in the bureaucracy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Do empires affect attitudes towards the state long after their demise? We hypothesize that the Habsburg Empire with its localized and well-respected administration increased citizens’ trust in local public services.
Woessmann , Ludger   +5 more
core  

The Late Agricultural Development of Central Arabian Oases—Archaeobotanical and Archaeozoological Studies of the al‐Kharj Oasis

open access: yesArabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While oasis settlements emerged during the Bronze Age in Eastern and Northern Arabia, the settlement process in Central Arabia was different. Excavations at al‐Yamāma—main ancient settlement of the al‐Kharj oasis (Riyadh Province, KSA)—suggest that the latter did not emerge before the second half of the first millennium BCE.
Elora Chambraud   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Translation and Power Dynamics: Exploring the Role of the Phanariot Families in the Ottoman Empire - A Case Study of the Mavrocordatos Family

open access: yes, 2023
Translation activities have had an important place in the functioning and expansion of the state in the Ottoman Empire since its foundation. Translation works, mainly carried out for diplomatic relations, were not carried out systematically until the ...
Erkul Yagci, Ahu Selin, Esiyok, Rabia
core   +1 more source

Home - About - Disclaimer - Privacy