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New Perspectives on the Greek War of Independence
This book marks the 200-year anniversary of uprisings in the Ottoman Balkans between February and March 1821, which became known in the West as the beginnings of the Greek War of Independence (1821–1832), and led to the formation of the modern Greek state. It explores the war and its impact on societies involved by delving into the myths that surround it, the realities that have often been ignored or suppressed, and its lasting legacies on national identities and histories. It also explores memory and commemoration in Greece, in other countries impacted, and the Greek diaspora. This book offers a fresh perspective on this pivotal event in Greek, Ottoman, Balkan, Mediterranean, European, and world histories. It presents new research and reflections to connect the war to wider history and to understand its importance across the last 200 years.
The Early Israeli Settler Movement
This book examines the religious, intellectual and historical roots of the Israeli settlement movement through the lens of various strands of Zionism. The book opens with a discussion of religious Zionism, especially through the lens of the teachings of Rabbi Avraham Isaac Kook and his son Zvi Yehuda Kook. The author notes the remarkable growth of a once marginal movement into a rapidly growing stream of Judaism, highlighting its key role in the settlement project before and after the Six Day War in 1967. This is supplemented by an analysis of the role of political Zionism as embodied by key figures such as Theodor Herzl and David Ben Gurion who adapted it into a governing ethos after Indepe...
A Cultural History of the Ottomans
Far from simply being a centre of military and economic activity, the Ottoman Empire represented a vivid and flourishing cultural realm. The artefacts and objects that remain from all corners of this vast empire illustrate the real and everyday concerns of its subjects and elites and, with this in mind, Suraiya Faroqhi, one of the most distinguished Ottomanists of her generation, has selected 40 of the most revealing, surprising and striking.Each image - reproduced in full colour - is deftly linked to the latest historiography, and the social, political and economic implications of her selections are never forgotten. In Faroqhi's hands, the objects become ways to learn more about trade, gender and socio-political status and open an enticing window onto the variety and colour of everyday life, from the Sultan's court, to the peasantry and slavery. Amongst its faiences and etchings and its sofras and carpets, A Cultural History of the Ottomans is essential reading for all those interested in the Ottoman Empire and its material culture. Faroqhi here provides the definitive insight into the luxuriant and varied artefacts of Ottoman world.
Ottomans and the Supernatural
In recent years, supernatural beliefs systems in medieval and modern Islamicate cultures have been the subject of sustained scholarly attention. But we know very little about these concepts and practices in an Ottoman context. Marinos Sariyannis proposes here to rectify this with a comprehensive exploration of Ottoman-era magic and occult sciences. Employing a unique methodology that involves close readings of a very wide range of textual sources taken from across four centuries - including geographical and cosmographical treatises, treatises focusing on philosophy, theology, and medicine, literary works, non-literary narratives, such as historiography, travelogues and biographies, and admin...
Transottoman Biographies, 16th–20th c.
For centuries, people moved between the Ottoman Empire, Eastern Europe, and Iran. This book studies the biographies of individuals and groups as different as rulers and revolutionaries, frontier bandits and merchants, soldiers and slaves from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. Following their journeys across borders, the case studies of this volume emphasize the profound effect that mobility had on the lives and thoughtworlds of everyone with a Transottoman trajectory. The chapters reveal breaks, adjustments, and continuities in people’s biographies and the in-betweenness that moving typically created.
Südosteuropa
Die Festschrift enthält Beiträge zur Geschichte Südosteuropas vom Mittelalter bis zur unmittelbaren Gegenwart, die sich in völker- und staatenübergreifender Perspektive beziehungs-, geistes- und kulturgeschichtliche Fragen behandeln. Im Zentrum des Bandes steht die Frage nach Entstehungsursachen für den unterschiedlichen Umgang mit der kulturellen und Bevölkerungsvielfalt Südosteuropas. Anders als die vornationalen Reiche förderten die seit dem 19. Jahrhundert entstehenden Nationalstaaten, bedingt durch sozialen Wandel und ethnopolitische Gewaltanwendung, die Tendenzen zur Beseitigung des Uneinheitlichen. Die Festschrift möchte das Schaffen Edgar Höschs als Historiker Südosteuropas, seine langjährige Tätigkeit als Leiter des Südost-Instituts in München und als Professor für Ost- und Südosteuropäische Geschichte an der Universität München würdigen. In diesem Sinne folgt sie wesentlichen Kennzeichen seiner Arbeiten.
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Die Jungtürken und die Mazedonische Frage (1890-1918)
Im Mittelpunkt der Arbeit steht das Verhältnis der seit 1908 regierenden sog. Jungtürken zur Mazedonischen Frage. Das multiethnische Gebiet Mazedonien war zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts das Zentrum eines harten Konkurrenzkampfes zwischen den jungen Balkanstaaten, Griechenland, Bulgarien und Serbien. Die jungtürkische Politik scheiterte mit den Balkankriegen 1912/13, deren Ergebnis jedoch außer den Griechen und Serben keinen der Beteiligten zufrieden stellte.
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