In format and data collected, the Egyptian census registers appear to have been compiled in accordance with population counts undertaken at the same time in the central Ottoman Empire, though the former have the important advantage of including a count of women. These registers contain data on ...
Xiaoping Fang (Monash University) joins the Infectious Historians to talk about cholera in China in the mid-20th century Episode 132 – Plague in the Ottoman Empire with Einar Wigen January 24, 2025 Einar Wigen (University of Oslo) comes on the podcast to discuss the Ottoman experience of plag...
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The restora- tion of the Ottoman Constitution in 1908 did not alter this trend; the only medieval Armenian history published in grabar in the Young Turk era was the editio princeps of Grigor Daranaghtsi in Jerusalem in 1915. In the Russian Empire, Armenian printing developed later than under ...
In 1971 Sencer Divitgioğlu inaugurated the Turkish discussion with an essay in which he attempted to demonstrate that the Ottoman Empire was a representative of the Asiatic Mode, with a free peasantry in villages largely isolated from the market, cultivating lands belonging to the state. Several...
Welcome to Medieval TimesThe Medieval Period, AKA the Middle Ages, stretched from the fall of the Roman Empire in the 5th century into the 15th Century, when the Renaissance brought the Age of Discovery. Historians Answer Questions About The Medieval Era We Can't Believe We Didn't Ask ...
‘In Our Own Time, On Our Own Terms: “Translation’ in India”’, Translating Others, I, 102–119, at 104, 106, 107; and Saliha Paker, ‘Ottoman Conceptions of Translation and its Practice: The 1897 “Classics Debate” as a Focus of Examining Change’, Translating Others, II, 325–...
Modern historians distinguish this later phase of the Roman Empire as Byzantine due to the imperial seat moving from Rome...- the entire Byzantine army, and with it the end of Byzantine power and influence. However, the modern consensus among Byzantine historians is that, while...- ...
In January 2012, the AHA annual conference hosted over 250 panels covering a vast array of topics, from gender to empire to the Obama presidency. Many considered contemporary concerns in pursuit of the profession’s long-held goal to make history meaningful to the present. Still, not a single...
Ottoman EmpireSunniShi'aThis article looks into how and why depictions of region, borders, identity and nation change in the writing of Iraqi scholars in the late Ottoman period. Another aim of this article is to critique the notion that divisions between Sunna and Shi'a, Turks and Persians...