ATA 681: Advanced Readings in Social History of the 19th Century Ottoman Empire

Advanced Readings in Social History of the 19th Century Ottoman Empire

Fall 2010

Cengiz Kırlı

Requirements:

Participation and Presentations: 50 %

Fınal Paper: 50 %

Course Outline:

Week 1: Introduction

Week 2: Prelude

Rifa'at 'Ali Abou-El-Haj. Formation of A Modern State: The Ottoman Empire Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries. Albany: State Univesity of New York Press, 1991.

Week 3: Army

Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha’s Men: Mehmed Ali, his Army and the Making of Modern Egypt (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997).

Avigdor Levy, “The Officer Corps in Sultan Mahmud II’s New Ottoman Army, 1826-39” International Journal of Middle East Studies, 2 (1), 1971: 21-39.

Erdem, Hakan. “Recruitment for the "Victorious Soldiers of Muhammad,” in the Arab Provinces, 1826-1828,” in Histories of the Modern Middle East: New Directions, (eds.) Israel Gershoni, Hakan Erdem and Ursula Woköck (London: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2002): 189-206.

Week 4: Taxation

Huri İslamoğlu “Politics of Administering Property: Law and Statistics in the Nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire,” in Constituting Property: Private Property in the East and West, (ed.) Huri İslamoğlu (London: I.B. Tauris, 2004): 276-319.

Halil İnalcık, “Tanzimat’ın Uygulanması ve Sosyal Tepkileri,” Osmanlı İmparatorluğu: Toplum ve Ekonomi (Eren: İstanbul, 1993): 361-424.

Ahmet Uzun, Tanzimat ve Sosyal Direnişler (İstanbul: Eren Yayınları, 2002).

Quataert, Donald. "Rural Unrest in the Ottoman Empire, 1830-1914." in Peasants and Politics in the Modern Middle East, (eds.) Farhad Kazemi and John Waterburry, (Miami: Florida International University Press, 1991): 38-49.

Week 5: Property

Douglas Hay, “Property, Authority and the Criminal Law,” in Albion’s Fatal Tree: Crime and Society in Eighteenth-Century England (eds.) Douglas Hay, et.al. (London: Allen Lane, 1975): 17-63.

E. P. Thomson, Whigs and Hunters: The Origin of the Black Act (London: Allen Lane, 1975).

Huri İslamoğlu, “Property as a Contested Domain: A Reevaluation of the Ottoman Land Code of 1858.” in New Perspectives on Property and Land, (eds.) Roger Owen and Martin P. Bunton, (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2001): 3-61.

Huri İslamoğlu, “Modernities Compared: State Transformations and Constitutions of Property in the Qing and Ottoman Empires,” Journal of Early Modern History, 5 (4), 2001: 353-86.

Yücel Terzibaşoğlu, “Eleni Hatun’un Zeytin Bahçeleri: 19. Yüzyılda Anadolu’da Mülkiyet Hakları Nasıl İnşa Edildi?” Tarih ve Toplum, no: 4, 2006.

Week 6: Law

Khaled Fahmy, “The anatomy of Justice: Forensic Medicine and Criminal Law in Nineteenth-century Egypt,” Islamic Law and Society, 6, 1999: 1-48.

Cengiz Kırlı, “Yolsuzluğun İcadı: 1840 Ceza Kanunu, İktidar ve Bürokrasi,” Tarih ve Toplum, no: 4, 2006.

Akarlı, Engin Deniz, “Gedik: A Bundle of Rights and Obligations for Istanbul Artisans and Traders, 1750-1840,” in Law, Anthropology, and the Constitution of the Social: Making Persons and Things, (ed.) Alain Pottage and Martha Mundy, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004): 166-200.

Milen V. Petrov. "Everyday Forms of Compliance: Subaltern Commentaries on Ottoman Reform, 1864-1868." Comparative Studies in Society and History, 46 (4) (2004): 730-759.

Sedat Bingöl, Hırsova Kaza Deavi Meclisi Tutanakları (Nizamiye Mahkemeleri Tutanaklarından Bir Örnek) (Eskişehir: Anadolu Üniversitesi, 2002).

Week 7: Police

Khaled Fahmy, “The Police and the People in Nineteenth-Century Egypt,” Die Welt des Islams, 39, 1999: 340-377.

Nadir Özbek, “Osmanlı İmparatorluğu'nda İç Güvenlik, Siyaset ve Devlet, 1876-1909,” Türklük Araştırmaları Dergisi, 16 (2004): 59-95.

Ferdan Ergut, Modern Devlet ve Polis: Osmanlı’dan Cumhuriyet’e Toplumsal Denetimin Diyalektiği (İstanbul: İletişim, 2004).

Week 8: Surveillance

Peter Holquist , “Information is the Alpha and Omega of Our Work,”: Bolshevik Surveillance in Its Pan-European Context” The Journal of Modern History, 69, 1997: 415”“450.

Robert Darnton, “An Early ınformation Society: News and the Media in Eighteenth-Century Paris,” American Historical Review, 105, 2000: 1-35.

Sheila Fitzpatrick, “Conversations and Listeners,” in Everyday Stalinism, (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999): 164-189.

Cengiz Kırlı, “Surveillance and Constituting the Public in the Ottoman Empire,” ed. Seteney Shami (New York: SSRC, 2007, Forthcoming).

Week 9: Public Health

Khaled Fahmy, “Medicine and Power: Towards a Social History of Medicine in Nineteenth-Century Egypt,” Cairo Papers in Social Science, 23 (2) 2000.

Nuran Yıldırım, “Osmanlı Coğrafyasında Karantina Uygulamalarına İsyanlar: ‘Karantina İstemezük!’” Toplumsal Tarih, no: 150 (2006), ss. 18-27.

Gülden Sarıyıldız, Hicaz Karantina Teşkilatı (1865-1914) (Ankara: TTK, 1996);

Daniel Panzac, Osmanlı İmparatorluğunda Veba: 1700-1850, trans. Serap Yılmaz (İstanbul: Tarih Vakfı, 1997).

Rhoads Murphey, "Ottoman Medicine and Transculturalism from the Sixteenth Through the Eighteenth Century," Bulletin of the History of Medicine, vol. 66, 1992, pp. 376-403.

Medicine, History and Society, Special Issue of Journal of Contemporary History, 20 (4), 1985.

Week 10: Punishment

Talal Asad, “Reflections on Cruelty and Torture,” in Formations of the Secular: Christianity, Islam, Modernity (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003): 100-127.

Rudolph Peters, “Controlled Suffering: Mortality and Living Conditions in 19th-century Egypt Prisons” International Journal of Middle East Studies, vol. 36 (2004): 387-407.

Rudolph Peters, “Prisons and Marginalisation in Nineteenth-century Egypt.” ın Outside In: On the Margins of the Modern Middle East, edited by Eugene Rogan, (London: ı.B. Tauris, 2002): 31-52.

Daly, Jonathan, “Political Crime in Late ımperial Russia” The Journal of Modern History, vol. 74 (2002): 62-100.

Week 11: Justice

Natalie Davis, Fiction in the Archives Pardon Tales and Their Tellers in Sixteenth-Century France (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1987).

Halil İnalcık, "Şikayet Hakkı: Arz-ı Hal ve Arz-ı Mahzarlar" Osmanlı Araştırmaları 7-8 (1988): 33-51.

John Chalcraft, “Engaging the State: Peasants and Petitions in Egypt on the Eve of Colonial Rule,” International Journal of Middle East Studies, 37 (2005), 303-325.

Petitions in History, Special Issue of International Review of Social History, 46, supplemenet 9, 2001.

Week 12: Legitimation

Nadir Özbek. “Modernite, Tarih ve İdeoloji: İkinci Abdülhamid Dönemi Tarihçiliği Üzerine Bir Değerlendirme,” Türkiye Araştırmaları Literatür Dergisi, no. 3, 2004: 71-90.

Nadir Özbek. “Imperial Gifts and Sultanic Legitimation During the Reign of Sultan Abdulhamid II, 1876-1909,” (eds.) Mine Ener, Amy Singer and Michael Bonner in Poverty and Charity in the Middle Eastern Contexts, (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2003): 203-220.

Selim Deringil, “The Invention of Tradition as Public ımage in the Late Ottoman Empire, 1808 to 1908,” Comparative Studies in Society and History 35 (1), 1993: 3-29.

Selim Deringil, “Legitimacy Structures in the Ottoman State: The Reign of Abdulhamid ıı (1876-1909),” ınternational Journal of Middle East Studies, 23 (3), 1991): 345-359.

Selim Deringil, “Long Live the Sultan! Symbolism and Power in the Hamidian Regime,” in The Well-Protected Domains, Ideology and the Legitimation of Power in the Ottoman Empire, 1876-1909 (New York: I.B.Tauris, 1998): 16-43.

Week 13: Provinces

Rogan, Eugene, Frontiers of the State in the Late Ottoman Empire: Transjordan, 1850-1921 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999).

Elizabeth Thompson, “Ottoman Political Reform in the Provinces: The Damascus Advisory Council in 1844-45,” International Journal of Middle East Studies, 25 (3), 1993: 457-475.

Ussama Makdisi, “After 1860: Debating Religion, Reform, and Nationalism in the Ottoman Empire,” International Journal of Middle East Studies, 34, 2002: 601-17.

Ussama Makdisi, The Culture of Sectarianism: Community, History, and Violence in Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Lebanon (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000).