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Colonialism, Sovereignty, and Medicine in Ottoman Lebanon / Philippe Bourmaud
118. Diplomas and DiplomacyDuring the nineteenth century, the increasing professionalization of medical practice led to the emergence of new institutions and laws governing legitimate use of...
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World War I and the Ottoman Home Front / Yiğit Akın
119. Social History of WWIWhile World War I was the result of a political conflict, it touched the lives of nearly every segment of Ottoman society in often tragic ways. Yet, the lived experience...
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Osmanlı Döneminde Bursa Otelleri | İsmail Yaşayanlar
120. Osmanlı'da Şehir TurizmiOsmanlı'nın erken dönemlerinden beri önemli ticaret yolları üzerinde bulunan Bursa, kimi tarihçilere göre imparatorluk sınırları içinde kapitalist ilişkilere erken giren...
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A Short History of Iraqi Refugees and Syria (2003-2013)
121. A Humanitarian InterventionUNHCR staff member talks with an Iraqi refugee family in SyriaSource: B. Heger / August 2007Justifiable moral outrage over the recent use of chemical weapons in...
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Hidden Histories at the French Archives | Sandrine Mansour-Mérien
122. Researching Middle East History in NantesL'histoire occultée des Palestiniens (1947-1953) by Sandrine Mansour-Mérien (click for amazon)It is an unfortunate legacy of colonialism that to write...
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Sultan ve Musahipleri | Günhan Börekçi
123. Yönetici Elitler ve Osmanlı Siyaset DünyasıErken modern Osmanlılar'ın küçük bir beylikten cihanşümül bir imparatorluğa dönüşmesi esnasında karşılaşılan zorluklar ve ihtiyaçlar Devlet-i Al-i...
View ArticleHistory of Science, Ottoman and Otherwise | Nir Shafir
124. Knowledge and Its Production Nir Shafir and Arianne Urus Kurtuluş, July 2013 While science was once understood by historians "on its own terms," i.e. as a rational means of arriving at...
View ArticlePlague in the Early Modern Mediterranean | Edna Bonhomme
125. People and Plagues Edna Bonhomme Paris, July 2013 Historians have long been wise to disease as a factor in historical events and developments. More recently, scholars have begun to focus on...
View ArticleJewish Citizens on Exhibit | Alma Heckman
126. l'Alliance Israélite Universelle, the Chicago World's Fair and the Ottoman Empire Alma Heckman / Nantes, France, August 2013 Progress, colonialism, nationalism, and the civilizing mission are...
View ArticleThe Enlightenment and the Ottoman World | Harun Küçük
127. An Ottoman Enlightenment? Historians have come to understand the Enlightenment, a cultural movement emphasizing reason and individualism, as a phenomenon of increasingly early origins that...
View ArticleHayretle Seyret: Osmanlı'da sinema ve şehir | Nezih Erdoğan
128. Osmanlı’nın Son Yıllarında Türkiye’de Sinemanın İlk Yılları Sinemanın ilk yıllarını, kinetoscope, vitascope ya da cinématographe gibi hareketli görüntü teknolojilerinin tarihi olarak okumak...
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129. Between Public and Private Osmanlı'da kamusal alan ile özel yaşam arasındaki sınır nasıl çizilmiştir? Herkesin birbirinin muhbiri olduğu bir toplumda iktidar, toplum ve birey arasındaki...
View ArticleMulberry Fields Forever | Zoe Griffith
130. Household and Political Economy Inheritance and the transfer of property across generations connects the history of families to a broader analysis of political economy, particularly in...
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131. The World and World War I Part One: While World War I was once studied mainly as a military conflict between European powers, the historiography of the war has since expanded to explore its...
View ArticleAlchemy in the Ottoman World | Tuna Artun
132. Ottoman Science in Question Alchemy has traditionally been understood as a pseudoscience or protoscience that eventually gave way to modern chemistry. Less often have the writings of...
View ArticleTurkey and Russia After Empire | Onur İşçi
133. New Friends or Old Foes? The Russo-Ottoman rivalry was one of the defining dramas of the European political stage for centuries. When both of these empires gave way to new states following the...
View ArticleWater Security in Post-War Iraq and Turkey | Julia Harte & Anna Ozbek
134. Society and Ecology For the past decade, media coverage of politics and life in Iraq has been dominated by the issues of the destructive American invasion and its aftermath. Often lost among...
View ArticleLubunca | Nicholas Kontovas
135. The History of Istanbul Slang Köçeks (Source: Levni, Surname) The term Lubunca refers to a type of slang historically used among Istanbul’s LGBTQ communities. The term has gained currency only...
View ArticleArabs Through Turkish Eyes | Nicholas Danforth
136. Representations of Politics and the Politics of Representation When are policies driven by prejudice, and when do policies give rise to prejudiced representations? In this episode, Nicholas...
View ArticleAcross Anatolia on a Bicycle | Daniel Pontillo
137. Technology and Identity What does it mean to wield or possess a certain technology? What are the limits to associational claims to technical expertise or superiority? In this podcast, Daniel...
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