Ottoman war and peace
Subtitle: studies in honor of Virginia H. Aksan
By: edited by Frank Castiglione, Ethan L. Menchinger, Veysel Şimşek
Contributors: Aksan, Virginia H., honoree
Series: The Ottoman Empire and its heritage: politics, society and economy -- volume 68; Ottoman Empire and its heritage -- v. 68.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9789004413139; 9789004413146
Subjects: History; Historiography; Military History; Social conditions; Intellectual life; Ethnic relations
Description: "The articles compiled in Ottoman War & Peace: Studies in Honor of Virginia H. Aksan, honor the prolific career of a foremost scholar of the Ottoman Empire, and engage in redefining the boundaries of Ottoman historiography. Blending micro and macro approaches, the volume covers topics from the sixteenth to twentieth centuries related to the Ottoman military and warfare, biography and intellectual history, and inter-imperial and cross-cultural relations. Through these themes, this volume seeks to bring out and examine the institutional and socio-political complexity of the Ottoman Empire and its peoples"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Crime among the Janissaries in the Ottoman Golden Age / Linda T. Darling; title: The trouble with Timārs : an excursion into a seventeenth-century documentary landscape / Victor Ostapchuk; title: Ottoman observers of Ottoman War in the 17th century / Mark Stein; title: The Azadlu gunpowder works : catalyst for the military industry complexes of Istanbul / Kahraman Şakul; title: Drill and discipline as a civilizing process : the genesis of the modern soldier in the Ottoman Empire, 1789-1826 / Fatih Yeşil; title: Armatole families in the 18th century Balkans / Molly Greene; title: Under fire and lice : experiences of an Ottoman soldier in the First World War (1914-1918) and the Turkish War of Independence (1919-1922) / Veysel Şimşek; title: Shayzar, an Ottoman fortress-settlement in Syria / James A. Reilly; title: A cure for the plague, and other prescriptions / Eleazar Birnbaum; title: A phenomenology of empire : Ayn Ali on the Ottoman provinces / Douglas A. Howard; title: Visualizing Ottoman space : Choiseul-Gouffier and the passage through Anatolia, 1776 / Palmira Brummett; title: On the identity of a reformist intellectual : the Koca Sekbanbaşı debate revisited / Ethan L. Menchinger and Aysel Yıldız; title: The law school of Mehmed II in the last quarter of the sixteenth century : a glass ceiling for the less connected Ottoman Ulema / Baki Tezcan; title: Writing biography with limited sources and fewer models : the case of Hurrem Sultan / Leslie Peirce; title: Tracing the life of Hüsam Bey : career paths in the sixteenth-century Ottoman navy / Christine Isom-Verhaaren; title: Eunuchs and the state in the Mamlūk Sultanate and the Ottoman Empire : a comparison / Jane Hathaway; title: "The clever engineer Koehler" : the clandestine activities of George Frederick Koehler (1758-1800) in the Ottoman lands, 1791-93 / Caroline Finkel; title: An Ottoman "exemption letter (Mu'āf-nāme)" dated 1015/1606 for the Karaite descendants of Fātima Hātūn, kira of Hafsa Sultan, the mother of Süleymān the Magnificent : a document from the National Museum of Lithuania / Colin Heywood; title: Ottoman brokers in the 18th-century Levant trade / Maurits H. van den Boogert; title: The Battle of Ali Hoca Burnu : framed privateers, questionable loyalties, and a sultanic prize court in the Ottoman Mediterranean / Will Smiley; title: Revisiting the escalation of intercommunal violence in İzmir (1797) : "anti-Greek," or a more complex dynamic? / Feryal Tansuğ; title: Nationality and sect in Ottoman and post-Ottoman Iraq / Dina Rizk Khoury.