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WHAT STORIES DOES EUROPE TELL? A VIEW FROM TURKEY. CES Open Forum Series 2018-2019 CES Open Forum Series 2018-2019 [PDF]

, 2019
Turkey’s omnipresence at the margins of Europe throughout history has given shape to both Turkish and European identities. This paper sheds light onto this relationship by endeavoring to go beyond the much studied institutional relationship between ...
Kadıoğlu, Ayşe
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“THE NORMAL EXCEPTION”: EDOARDO GRENDI, MICROANALYSIS, AND GENERALIZATIONS*

History and Theory, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT “The normal exception” has long been a slogan of microhistory. This oxymoronic phrase is the iconic rendering of an incidental sentence that appeared in a 1977 article by Edoardo Grendi. His article, titled “Micro‐analisi e storia sociale” (Microanalysis and Social History), is cited more often than it is read.
FRANCESCA TRIVELLATO
wiley   +1 more source

Field Theory and Colonialism: Indirect Colonial Situation as a Social Field in Egypt (1882–1922)

Sociology Lens, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper argues that Egypt under British rule (1882–1922) constituted a field of power in which the local state of Egypt and the British administration competed to dominate three key subfields to ensure control over a contested territory: the modern courts system, policing, and agricultural production.
Mehdi Hoseini
wiley   +1 more source

Cultural politics, nation building, and literary imagery: towards a post-colonial reading of the literature(s) of Bosnia-Herzegovina 1878-1918 [PDF]

, 2009
Departing from two examples that illustrate the interconnectedness of Habsburg cultural politics and (the development of) Bosnian literature as well as their role in and impact on the construction of national identities in Bosnia and Herzegovina (1878 ...
Vervaet, Stijn
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Ethnic Conflicts, Civil War, and Economic Growth: Region‐Level Evidence From Former Yugoslavia

Journal of Regional Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper studies the long‐term effects of the Yugoslav civil war (1987–1995) on subnational economic growth across 78 regions in five former Yugoslav republics from 1950 to 2015. We construct counterfactual growth trajectories using a robust region‐level donor pool from 32 conflict‐free countries.
Aleksandar Kešeljević, Stefan Nikolić, Rok Spruk   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Contemporary Debate on Secularization and Its Cross‐National Variation: A Systematization Through Topic Modeling

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Secularization is a key concept in the social scientific study of religion, yet its meaning remains ambiguous due to varied definitions produced in the literature. This article aims to provide a data‐driven systematization of the debate on religious change by analyzing 1638 academic articles published between 2001 and 2022 using structural ...
Valeria Rainero, Ruud Luijkx
wiley   +1 more source

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

The 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

Staging the ‘Forgotten Genocide’ in the Aftermath of the Dirty War: Una bestia en la luna by Richard Kalinoski [PDF]

, 2015
The most recent Argentine military dictatorship (1976-1983) and the Armenian Genocide (1915-1923) share legacies of state-sanctioned denial and impunity, which have left survivors and subsequent generations grappling with issues of memory and mourning ...
Strichartz, Ariel
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The Ethnic Groups Military Recruitment Data

Nations 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

OSMANLI TOPLUMUNDA NÂMZEDİN NİŞANIN BOZULMASI VE SONUÇLARI: KONYA ÖRNEĞİ 18. Yüzyılın İlk Çeyreğine Âit Konya Şer‘iye Sicillerine Göre

Selçuk Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi, 2006
Osmanlıtoplumunda nişan, taraflarıevliliğe hazırlayan bir süreçtir. Kız ve erkek tarafıbu süreci birbirilerini tanımakla geçiriler. Ancak bazen bu süreç, evlilik gerçekleşmeden tarafların ayrılmasıile sonuçlanabilir.
İzzet Sak
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