Week 12: Reforms of
Ottoman Society
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.