Görkem Akgöz, BRILL, 2023 In the Shadow of War and Empire offers a site-specific history of Ottoman and Turkish industrialization through the lens of a mid-nineteenth-century cotton factory in the “Turkish Manchester,” the name chosen by the Ottomans for the…
Phillip Lieberman, Cambridge University Press, 2022 Phillip Lieberman revisits one of the foundational narratives of medieval Jewish history—that the rise of Islam led the Jews of Babylonia, the largest Jewish community prior to the rise of Islam, to abandon a…
Şevket Pamuk, Cambridge University Press, 1987 Originally published in 1987, this book examines the consequences of the nineteenth-century economic penetration of Europe into the Ottoman Empire. Professor Pamuk makes subtle use of a very wide range of sources encompassing the…
Author: Nir Shafir, Stanford University Press, 2024 The seventeenth-century Ottoman Empire was rife with polemical debate, around worshipping at saints’ graves, medical procedures, smoking tobacco, and other everyday practices. Fueling these debates was a new form of writing—the pamphlet, a…