April 5-7


Municipal Palace in the Sixth District, Istanbul, 1850s

Please read two of the following: submit one form, due Sunday April 3; read Quataert, 54-73, 140-171.

• Ilber Ortayli , "The Greeks and Ottoman Administration During the Tanzimat Period," in Charles Issawi and D. Gondicas (eds), The Greeks in the Ottoman Empire, From the Tanzimat to the Young Turks (in press, not in our library). Study guide for Ortayli .
• David Kushner , "Turkish Culture" from his The Rise of Turkish Nationalism, 1876-1908 . Study guide for Kushner .
• Albert Hourani , "The Changing Balance of Power in the Eighteenth Century," from his A History of the Arab Peoples. Study guide for Hourani .
• Roderic Davison, "The Advent of the Principle of Representation in the Government of the Ottoman Empire," in William R. Polk and Richard L. Chambers (eds), Beginnings of Modernization in the Middle East: The Nineteenth Century. Study guide for Davison .
• Max Kortepeter , "American Liberalism Establishes Bases: Robert College and the American University of Beirut," in his The Ottoman Turks: Nomad Kingdom to World Empire, pp. 229-246.
• A very interesting WEB site providing views of and information about Istanbul wooden houses in the Nineteenth Century.