Studies on Ottoman Social and Political History: Selected Articles and Essays (Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East and Asia) (Social, ... Studies of the Middle East and Asia)

872 Pages·2002·44.84 MB·English

by  Kemal H. Karpat

STUDIES ON OTTOMAN SOCIAL AND POLITICAL HISTORY
SOCIAL, ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL
STUDIES OF
THE MIDDLE EAST AND ASIA
(S.E.P.S.M.E.A.)
(Founding editor: C.A.O. van Nieuwenhuijze)
Editor
REINHARD SCHULZE
Advisory Board
Dale Eickelman (Dartmouth College)
Roger Owen (Harvard University)
Judith Tucker (Georgetown University)
Yann Richard (Sorbonne Nouvelle)
VOLUME 81
STUDIES ON OTTOMAN
SOCIAL AND POLITICAL HISTORY
Selected Articles and Essays
BY
KEMAL H. KARPAT
BRILL
LEIDEN • BOSTON • KOLN
2002
This book is printed on acid-free paper.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Karpat, Kernal H.
Studies on Ottoman social and political history : selected articles and essays /
by Kernal H. Karpat.
p. cm. — (Social, economic, and political studies of the Middle East and
Asia; 81).
ISBN 9004121013
1. Turkey—Social conditions—1288-1918. 2. Turkey—Economic
conditions—1288-1918. 3. Turkey—Politics and government. I. Title. II. Series.
HC492.K38 2002
256.1'015—dc21 2002023960
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Karpat, Kemal H. :
Studies on ottoman social and political history : selected articles and
essays / by Kemal H. Karpet. - Leiden ; Boston ; Koln : Brill, 2002
(Social, economic, and political studies of the Middle East and Asia ; Vol 81)
ISBN 90-04-12101-3
ISSN 1385-3376
ISBN 9004121013
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CONTENTS
Copyrights and Permissions ix
Introduction 1
I. Ottoman Transformation & Demography—Migration
The Transformation of the Ottoman State, 1789-1908 27
The Ottoman Parliament of 1877 and its Social
Significance 75
The Ottoman Emigration to America, 1860 1914 90
The Ottoman Adoption of Statistics from the West in the
19th Century 132
Jewish Population Movements in the Ottoman Empire,
1862-1914 146
Kossuth in Turkey: The Impact of Hungarian Refugees in
the Ottoman Empire, 1849-1851 169
The Ottoman Demography in the Nineteenth Century:
Sources, Concepts, Methods 185
Ottoman Urbanism: The Crimean Emigration to Dobruca
and the Founding of Mecidiye, 1856-1878 202
The Ottoman Family: Documents Pertaining to its Size 235
The Social and Economic Transformation of Istanbul in the
Nineteenth Century 243
VI CONTENTS
Some Historical and Methodological Considerations
Concerning Social Stratification in the Middle East 291
Muslim Migration 311
II. The Social Restructuring, Nationalities—Nationalism
The Land Regime, Social Structure, and Modernization in
the Ottoman Empire 327
The Social and Political Foundations of Nationalism in
South East Europe after 1878: A Reinterpretation 352
Ottoman Relations with the Balkan Nations after 1683 385
The Balkan National States and Nationalism: Image and
Reality 434
The Ottoman Rule in Europe From the Perspective of
1994 473
The Civil Rights of the Muslims of the Balkans 522
Nation and Nationalism in the Late Ottoman Empire 544
The Memoirs of N. Batzaria: The Young Turks and
Nationalism 556
Ottoman Views and Policies Towards the Orthodox
Christian Church 586
Millets and Nationality: The Roots of the Incongruity of
Nation and State in the Post-Ottoman Era 611
The Status of the Muslim under European Rule: The
Eviction and Settlement of the Qerkes 647
Romanian Independence and the Ottoman State 676
CONTENTS Vll
III. Ethnicity & Identity
The Hijra from Russia and the Balkans: The Process of
Self-Definition in the Late Ottoman State 689
The Ethnicity Problem in a Multi-Ethnic Anational
Islamic State: Continuity and Recasting of Ethnic Identity
in the Ottoman State 712
The Ottoman Ethnic and Confessional Legacy in the
Middle East 730
Ottoman Migration, Ethnopolitics and the Formation of
Nation States in South East Europe and Israel 752
Ottoman Immigration Policies and Settlement in
Palestine 783
Yakub Bey's Relations with the Ottoman Sultans:
A Reinterpretation 800
Social Environment and Literature: The Reflection of the
Young Turk Era (1908-1918) in the Literary Work of
Omer Seyfeddin (1884-1920) 822
Glossary 847
Index 849
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