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138. Medicine and Ethnography Medicine is not merely a practice that takes place in hospitals, clinics, and laboratories. It also involves the movement and operation of medical practitioners in...
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139. End of Year 2013 In our final episode of our biggest year yet, we explain the importance of independent, open-access internet projects and answer the questions of CUNY-City College students about...
View ArticleDarwin in Arabic | Marwa Elshakry
COMING SOON ON OTTOMAN HISTORY PODCAST 10 January 2014 140. Translating Knowledge Historians have begun to explore the paradox of the identification of a would-be universal form of rational...
View ArticleRace, Slavery, and Islamic Law in the Early Modern Atlantic | Chris Gratien
141. Ahmad Baba of Timbuktu Notions of racial difference played an important role in the Atlantic slave trade and have left a long legacy well after the slave trade was abolished during the...
View ArticleA History of Police Reform in Turkey | Leila Piran
142. Human Rights in Turkey As part of its EU accession candidacy, a number of reforms related to "democratization" have been applied to Turkey's legal and administrative apparatuses. One such...
View ArticleThe Ottoman Scramble for Africa | Mostafa Minawi
143. Imperial Underdogs The Ottoman Empire occupies an unusual place among the competing imperial powers of the nineteenth century. On one hand, a weak military position often forced the Ottomans...
View ArticleGalata and the Capitulations | Fariba Zarinebaf
144. Commercial Law in the Ottoman Empire The capitulations, a series of bilateral agreements with European states and merchants, are sometimes held up as symbols of early Ottoman concessions to...
View ArticleBathing in the Bosphorus | Burkay Pasin
145. Public Space in Ottoman Istanbul The public bath or hamam was fixture of most Ottoman towns. When interest in seaside summer spaces grew during the nineteenth century, this urban space was...
View ArticleOttoman Poland | Michael Polczynski & Paulina Dominik
146. Ottoman Poland Poland is not always remembered among the great imperial rivals of the Ottoman Empire such as Safavid Iran, the Habsburgs, and Muscovy within discussions of early modern...
View ArticleMuslims in the Middle Kingdom | Kelly Hammond
147. China's Muslim Communities China is home to one of the world's largest Muslim populations, and the history of Islam in China is almost as old as the religion itself. In this episode, Kelly...
View ArticleBeyond Heterodoxy: Kizilbash/Alevis in Ottoman Anatolia | Ayfer Karakaya-Stump
148. Kizilbash The history of Anatolia's Alevi or Kizilbash community has long been written by outsiders who have variously portrayed them as mysterious, heretical, heterodox, or uncivilized....
View ArticleCommon Ground and Imagined Communities | Daniel Pontillo
149. The Nation as Conversation The study of discourse already occupies a prominent place within the humanities, but what can the study of a much differently defined discourse in the study of...
View ArticleThe Lives of Ottoman Children | Nazan Maksudyan
150. From the Mouths of Babes Much has been written about shifts in the concept of childhood and the structure of families, particularly for the period following industrialization. However, seldom...
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