CSHS.517, FALL 2013 Ottoman State and Society

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1 1 CSHS.517, FALL 2013 Office: SOS Z11B Class Time: Thursday, 9:30-12:15 Office Hours: Wed or by appointment Course Description: This is a seminar course which analyzes 19 th century transformations of the Ottoman Empire. Both chronological and thematic aspects of the 19 th century will be studied. While examining certain issues from the late Ottoman period, our concern will be to articulate the everyday experiences of various social groups and individuals within the complexity of social and political realms. How reform in the center, provincial administration, economy and social structure changed the dynamics of relations between the state and society in various regions of the empire will be analyzed. Course Requirements and General Classroom Policies: There will be combination of a lecture and discussion every week. Students are expected to come to class having done the readings and prepared two questions from readings for the discussions. Students will write a research paper (around 25 pages long) on a topic related to the themes of the course. The topic will be decided by students in consultation with the instructor. Academic Honesty: Koç University expects all its students to perform course-related activities in accordance with the rules set forth in the Student Code of Conduct ( Actions considered as academic dishonesty at Koç University include but are not limited to cheating, plagiarism, collusion, and impersonating. This statement s goal is to draw attention to cheating and plagiarism related actions deemed unacceptable within the context of Student Code of Conduct: All individual assignments must be completed by the student himself/herself, and all team assignments must be completed by the members of the team, without the aid of other individuals. If a team member does not contribute to the written documents or participate in the activities of the team, his/her name should not appear on the work submitted for evaluation. Plagiarism is defined as borrowing or using someone else s written statements or ideas without giving written acknowledgement to the author. Students are encouraged to

2 2 conduct research beyond the course material, but they must not use any documents prepared by current or previous students, or notes prepared by instructors at Koç University or other universities without properly citing the source. Furthermore, students are expected to adhere to the Classroom Code of Conduct ( and to refrain from all forms of unacceptable behavior during lectures. Failure to adhere to expected behavior may result in disciplinary action. There are two kinds of plagiarism: Intentional and accidental. Intentional plagiarism (Example: Using a classmate s homework as one s own because the student does not want to spend time working on that homework) is considered intellectual theft, and there is no need to emphasize the wrongfulness of this act. Accidental plagiarism, on the other hand, may be considered as a more acceptable form of plagiarism by some students, which is certainly not how it is perceived by the University administration and faculty. The student is responsible from properly citing a source if he/she is making use of another person s work. For an example on accidental plagiarism, please refer to the document titled An Example on Accidental Plagiarism. If you are unsure whether the action you will take would be a violation of Koç University s Student Code of Conduct, please consult with your instructor before taking that action. An Example on Accidental Plagiarism This example is taken from a document prepared by the City University of New York. The following text is taken from Elaine Tyler May s Myths and Realities of the American Family : Because women's wages often continue to reflect the fiction that men earn the family wage, single mothers rarely earn enough to support themselves and their children adequately. And because work is still organized around the assumption that mothers stay home with children, even though few mothers can afford to do so, child-care facilities in the United States remain woefully inadequate. Below, there is an excerpt from a student s homework, who made use of May s original text: As Elaine Tyler May points out, women's wages often continue to reflect the fiction that men earn the family wage (588). Thus many single mothers cannot support themselves and their children adequately. Furthermore, since work is based on the assumption that mothers stay home with children, facilities for day care in this country are still woefully inadequate. (May 589). You may think that there is no plagiarism here since the student is citing the original author. However, this is an instance of accidental plagiarism. Although the student cites May and uses quotation marks occasionally, the rest of the sentences, more specifically the following section: Thus many single mothers cannot support themselves and their children adequately. Furthermore, since work is based on the assumption that mothers stay home with children, facilities for day care in this country are still woefully

3 3 inadequate. (May 589) almost exactly duplicates May s original language. So, in order to avoid plagiarism, the student either had to use quotation marks for the rest of the sentences as well, or he/she had to paraphrase May s ideas by using not only his/her own words, but his/her own original ideas as well. You should keep in mind that accidental plagiarism often occurs when the student does not really understand the original text but still tries to make use of it. Understanding the original text and understanding why you agree or disagree with the ideas proposed in that text is crucial both for avoiding plagiarism and for your intellectual development. Grading: Participation: 30% Presentation: 20% Final: 50% Contact: The best way to reach me is via . I will be checking my during the week to answer any questions you may have about the readings. Also take note of my office hours. WEEK 1 (19 SEPTEMBER) COURSE INTRODUCTION WEEK 2 (26 SEPTEMBER) COURSE SCHEDULE OTTOMANS FROM EARLY MODERNITY TO THE 19 TH CENTURY Bernard Lewis, Some Reflections on the Decline of the Ottoman Empire, Studia Islamica, no.9 (1958): Baki Tezcan, The Second Ottoman Empire: Political and Social Transformation in the Early Modern World (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), pp Rifa at Ali Abou-El-Haj, Formation of the Modern State (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1991), pp Ariel Salzmann, An Ancient Regime Revisited: Privatization and Political Economy in the Eighteenth Century Ottoman Empire, Politics and Society, vol.21, no.4 (1993): WEEK 3 (3 October) OTTOMAN POLITY IN THE TANZIMAT PERIOD

4 4 Roderic Davison, Reform in the Ottoman Empire, (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1963), pp Yonca Köksal, Imperial Center and Local Groups: Tanzimat Reforms in the Provinces of Edirne and Ankara, New Perspectives on Turkey, no.27 (2002): Beshara B. Doumani, The Political Economy of Population Counts in Ottoman Palestine: Nablus, circa 1850, International Journal of Middle East Studies, vol.26, no.1 (1994): WEEK 4 (10 October) SOCIAL RESPONSES TO THE TANZIMAT REFORMS Halil İnalcık, Application of the Tanzimat and Its Social Effects, Archivum Ottomanicum, vol.5 (1973): Milen V. Petrov, Everyday Forms of Compliance: Subaltern Commentaries on Ottoman Reform, , Comparative Studies in Society and History, vol. 46, no.4 (2004): Mosayuki Ueno, For the Fatherland and the State : Armenians Negotiate the Tanzimat Reforms, International Journal of Middle East Studies, vol. 45 (2013): Ussama Makdisi, Corrupting the Sublime Sultanate: The Revolt of Tanyus Shahin in Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Lebanon, Comparative Studies in Society and History, vol. 42, no.1 (2000): WEEK 5 (24 October) THE HAMIDIAN STATE: THE LEGITIMATION OF POWER Selim Deringil, Legitimacy Structures in the Ottoman Empire: The Reign of Abdülhamit II ( ), International Journal of Middle East Studies, vol.23, no.3 (1991): Selim Deringil, The Well-Protected Domains: Ideology and the Legitimation of Power in the Ottoman Empire (London: I.B. Tauris, 1999), pp Nadir Özbek, Imperial Gifts and Sultanic Legitimation during Late Ottoman Empire, , in Poverty and Charity in Middle Eastern Contexts, ed. Michael Bonner, Mine Ener and Amy Singer (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2003), pp Elizabeth Frierson, Unimagined Communities: Women and E ducation in the Late- Ottoman Empire, Critical Matrix, vol.9, no.2 (1995):

5 5 WEEK 6 (31 October) THE YOUNG TURK REVOLUTION Donald Quataert, "The Economic Climate of the Young Turk Revolution in 1908," Journal of Modern History, vol. 51, no.3 (1979): D1147-D1161. Şükrü Hanioğlu, Preparation for a Revolution: The Young Turks, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001), pp Fatma Müge Göçek, "What is the Meaning of the Young Turk Revolution? A Critical Historical Assessment in 2008," İstanbul Üniversitesi Siyasal Bilgiler Fakültesi Dergisi, no. 38 (2008): Nilay Özok-Gündoğan, A Peripheral Approach to the 1908 Revolution in the Ottoman Empire: Land Disputes in Peasant Petitions in Post-Revolutionary Diyarbekir, in Social Relations in Ottoman Diyarbekir, , ed. Joost Jongerden and Jelle Verheij (Leiden: Brill, 2012), pp WEEK 7 (7 November) WORKERS IN THE LATE OTTOMAN EMPIRE Cengiz Kırlı, A Profile of the Labor Force in Early Nineteenth-Century Istanbul, International Labor and Working Class History, no.60 (2001): Sherry Vatter, Journeymen Textile Weavers in Nineteenth-Century Damascus: A Collective Biography, in Struggle and Survival in the Modern Middle East, edited by Edmund Burke (Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2005), Donald Quataert, Machine Breaking and the Changing of Carpet Industry of Western Anatolia, , Journal of Social History, vol.19, no.3 (1986): Gila Hadar, Jewish Tobacco Workers in Salonika: Gender and Family in the Context of Social and Ethnic Strife, in Women in the Ottoman Balkans: Gender, Culture and History, edited by Amila Buturovic and İrvin Cemil Schick (London: I.B. Tauris, 2007), pp WEEK 8 (14 November) STATE AND PROVINCIAL SOCIETY IN THE LATE OTTOMAN EMPIRE-I Nadir Özbek, The Politics of Taxation and the Armenian Question during the Late Ottoman Empire, , Comparative Studies in Society and History, vol. 54, no.4 (2012): Janet Klein, The Margins of Empire: Kurdish Militias in the Ottoman Tribal Zone (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2011), pp and

6 6 WEEK 9 (21 November) STATE AND PROVINCIAL SOCIETY IN THE LATE OTTOMAN EMPIRE-II Eugene Rogan, Frontiers of State in the Late Ottoman Empire: Transjordan, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), pp and Michelle U. Campos, Between Beloved Ottomania and The Land of Israel : The Struggle over Ottomanism and Zionism among Palestine s Sephardi Jews, , International Journal of Middle East Studies, vol. 37, no.4 (2005): WEEK 10 (28 November) OTTOMAN IMPERIAL POLICIES: ORIENTALISM AND POST-COLONIAL DEBATE Ussama Makdisi, Ottoman Orientalism, The American Historical Review, vol.107, no.3 (2002): Selim Deringil, They Live in a State of Nomadism and Savagery : The Late Ottoman Empire and the Post-Colonial Debate, Comparative Studies in Society and History, vol.45, no.2 (2003): Thomas Kühn, "Ordering Urban Space in Ottoman Yemen, ," in The Empire in the City: Arab Provincial Capitals in the Late Ottoman Empire, ed. Jens Hanssen, Thomas Philipp, and Stefan Weber (Beirut: Orient Institut, 2002), pp Edip Gölbaşı, 19. Yüzyıl Osmanlı Emperyal Siyaseti ve Osmanlı Tarih Yazımında Kolonyal Perspektifler, Tarih ve Toplum Yeni Yaklaşımlar, no.13 (2011): WEEK 11 (5 December) OTTOMAN CITIES: OTHER FUTURES MAY REQUIRE OTHER PASTS Mark Mazower, Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews, (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005), pp and Biray Kolluoğlu Kırlı, Cityscapes and Modernity: Smyrna Morphing into İzmir, in Ways to Modernity in Greece and Turkey: Encounters with Europe, , ed. Anna Frangoudaki and Çağlar Keyder (New York: I.B. Tauris, 2007), pp Keith David Watenpaugh, Cleansing the Cosmopolitan City: Historicism, Journalism and the Arab Nation in the Post-Ottoman Eastern Mediterranean, Social History, vol.30, no.1 (2005): WEEK 12 (12 December) A HISTORIOGRAPHIC DEBATE ON PAST AND PRESENT

7 7 Çağlar Keyder, The Ottoman Empire, in After Empire: Multiethnic Societies and Nation-Building, ed. Karen Barkey and Mark von Hagen (Boulder: Westview, 1997), pp Çağlar Keyder, Port Cities in the Belle Époque, in Cities of the Mediterranean From the Ottomans to the Present Day, edited by Biray Kolluoğlu and Meltem Toksöz (London: I.B Tauris Publishers, 2010), pp Reşat Kasaba, Economic Foundations of a Civil Society: Greeks in the Trade of Western Anatolia, , in Ottoman Greeks in the Age of Nationalism: Politics, Economy and Society in the Nineteenth Century, ed. Dimitri Gondicas and Charles Isawi (Princeton: The Darwin Press, 1999), pp Nadir Özbek, Alternatif Tarih Tahayyülleri: Siyaset, İdeoloji ve Osmanlı-Türkiye Tarihi, Toplum ve Bilim, no.98 (2003): WEEK 13 (19 December) SOURCES OF OTTOMAN HISTORY Başbakanlık Osmanlı Arşiv Rehberi (Ankara: 2010). Ahmet Şerif, Anadolu'da Tanin, ed. Mehmed Çetin Börekçi (Ankara: Türk Tarih Kurumu, 1999). Donald Quataert and Yüksel Duman, A Coal Miner s Life during the Late Ottoman Empire, International Labor and Working-Class History, no.60 (2001): Beshara Doumani, Rediscovering Palestine: Merchants and Peasants in Jabal Nablus, (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995). WEEK 14 (26 December) REVIEW