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Graduate Course
WiSe 19/20: Global Microhistory and the Late Ottoman Empire
Nazan Maksudyan Ilicak
Comments
From the 1990s onwards, the interest in the connection between microhistory and world history has increased. Without overlooking the apparent differences between them, histories/stories of individuals, events and places are more and more situated in a much larger history. This trend is referred to by some historians as “global micro-history” (Gamsa, 2017). This course will provide an overview of connections between micro and macro worlds by focusing on lives of certain individuals and groups, personal narratives, and other ego documents. The attempt is to frame the story of these individuals (microhistories) within the story of the Ottoman Empire and beyond (global). close
Suggested reading
Philliou, Christine M. Biography of an empire: Governing Ottomans in an age of revolution. Univ of California Press, 2011.
Fortna, Benjamin C. The Circassian: A Life of Esref Bey, Late Ottoman Insurgent and Special Agent. Oxford University Press, 2016.
Sajdi, Dana. The Barber of Damascus: Nouveau Literacy in the Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Levant. Stanford University Press, 2013.
Agmon, Iris. "Social Biography of a Late Ottoman Shari'a Judge." New Perspectives on Turkey 30 (2004): 83-113.
Occasional Papers in Ottoman Biographies, http://ottomanbiographies.org/papers.html
Tinaz, Kerem. An Imperial Ideology and Its Legacy: Ottomanism in a Comparative Perspective, 1894-1928. University of Oxford, 2018.
Kafadar, Cemal. "Self and others: the diary of a dervish in seventeenth century Istanbul and first-person narratives in Ottoman literature." Studia Islamica 69 (1989): 121-150.
Elfenbein, Madeleine. "No Empire for Old Men: The Young Ottomans and the World, 1856–1878." (2017).
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16 Class schedule
Regular appointments
Tue, 2019-10-15 12:00 - 14:00
Tue, 2019-10-22 12:00 - 14:00
Tue, 2019-10-29 12:00 - 14:00
Tue, 2019-11-05 12:00 - 14:00
Tue, 2019-11-12 12:00 - 14:00
Tue, 2019-11-19 12:00 - 14:00
Tue, 2019-11-26 12:00 - 14:00
Tue, 2019-12-03 12:00 - 14:00
Tue, 2019-12-10 12:00 - 14:00
Tue, 2019-12-17 12:00 - 14:00
Tue, 2020-01-07 12:00 - 14:00
Tue, 2020-01-14 12:00 - 14:00
Tue, 2020-01-21 12:00 - 14:00
Tue, 2020-01-28 12:00 - 14:00
Tue, 2020-02-04 12:00 - 14:00
Tue, 2020-02-11 12:00 - 14:00