| |
Faculty
Listing
Alphabetical
Listing
Listing by Field
|
I am a Middle East,
Ottoman, historian interested in labor, social and economic history during
the period 1750-1923. At the undergraduate level, I offer survey courses
of Middle East history during the early modern and modern periods. In
addition, I am active in the global history program of the department
and, together with Jean Quataert, regularly team-teach an undergraduate
course on Modern World History. At the graduate level I offer seminars
and also work individually with students on their own areas of research
interest. As needed, I provide training in the reading of Ottoman archival
sources. I am also deeply committed to comparative and global history
and offer training to students in all fields of study--e.g., U.S., Europe,
Latin America--in the belief they will profit pedagogically and when entering
the job market.
I welcome applications
from students interested in all areas of Ottoman history. Throughout my
career, I have sought to understand Ottoman history from below by examining
the lives of Ottoman peasants and workers. This has been an exciting and
challenging task, in part because our main sources of information are
the records provided by the Ottoman state itself. Such records, naturally,
give priority attention to issues around stability and the flow of tax
revenues and not the lives and concerns of Ottoman subjects. That is,
my main task has been to extract from the Ottoman documents stories they
were not intended to reveal.
I have carried out
extensive research on the economic and social history of the late Ottoman
period, c. 1700-1922. The research has been based, first of all, on the
Ottoman sources in the archives located in Istanbul as well as libraries
there and in Ankara. I also have made quite considerable use of archives
in Germany, Austria, France, England, and the United States.
My research interests
first focused on agrarian change, a truly formidable and challenging subject,
that still awaits a more thorough analysis by historians. I then turned
to an investigation of changing transportation and communication systems
and their impact on the economy, especially during the 19th century. More
recently, labor history-a truly unexplored area of Ottoman studies-has
been the main subject of my concern. Important issues here include the
role of guild organizations in the work force; the importance of women
as workers; the lives of labor; the role of the Janissaries in Ottoman
guilds; and a reconstruction of the everyday lives of workers. I am preparing a history of the late Ottoman Empire based on the "corruption" case of an official in the Zonguldak coal field on the Black Sea coast of Ottoman Anatolia. This involves miners and their families, guilds, shopkeepers, mine operators, imams and state officials, c. 1900. It forms part of the larger project on the coal miners, c. 1820-1920.
Students interested
in applying for graduate studies in Ottoman history should refer to the
Graduate Programs.
There you will find information on the application procedures and on the
teaching assistantships that are available to qualified students.
Recent
or current undergraduate courses:
Recent
or current graduate courses:
- The Middle East Since 1700
- Comparative Labor
History (US, Europe, Third World)
- Ottoman Labor
History
- Braudel's Mediterranean
World
- Southeast Europe/Ottoman
Empire
- Topics in Ottoman
History
- 19th Century Ottoman
History
Significant
Publications
Books:
- Miners and the State in the Ottoman Empire: the Zonguldak Coalfield, 1822-1920. Berghahn Press, 2006.
There is a website, prepared with the assistance of Thomas M. Sliva, that contains a host of photographs, illustrations, maps, and documents relevant to this volume. Please visit the following sites
http://bingiwas.binghamton.edu/~ottmiddl/
or http://bingweb.binghamton.edu/~coal/index.htm
- Editor, with Sabri
Sayari, Turkish Studies in the United States,Bloomington, IN, 2003.
- Editor, "Labor
History in the Ottoman Middle East, 1700-1922," in International
Labor and Working Class History (Fall, 2001), 93-179.
- The Ottoman
Empire 1700-1922 (Cambridge, 2000).
- Editor, Consumption
Studies & The History Of The Ottoman Empire, 1550-1922. Albany,
2000.
- Workers and
the Working Class in the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic, 1839-1950.
London, 1995.
- Co-editor, with
Halil Inalcik and Erik Zurcher, Ottoman Empire: Society and Economy
1300-1914. Cambridge, 1994.
- "The Age of Reforms,
1812-1914," in Halil Inalcik with Donald Quataert, eds., The Ottoman
Empire: Society and Economy 1300-1914. Cambridge, 1994, pp. 749-943.
- Workers, Peasants
and Economic Change in the Ottoman Empire, 1730-1914. Istanbul,
1993.
- Ottoman Manufacturing
in the Age of the Industrial Revolution. Cambridge, 1993.
- Co-editor, with
Caglar Keyder and Eyup Ozveren, Port Cities of the Eastern Mediterranean,
1800-1914. Special Issue of Review, Fall 1993.
- Contributor and
co-editor, with Heath Lowry, Humanist and Scholar. Essays in Honor
of Andreas Tietze. Istanbul, 1993.
- Co-editor with
Caglar Keyer, The 1838 Convention and Its Impact. New Perspectives
on Turkey. Special Issue, Spring 1992.
- Manufacturing
and Technology Transfer in the Ottoman Empire, 1800-1914. Istanbul,
1992.
- Co-Editor with
Richard Antoun, Syria: Its Society, Culture and Polity. Albany,
1991.
- Social Disintegration
and Popular Resistance in the Ottoman Empire, 1881-1908. Reactions to
European Economic Penetration. New York, 1983.
Recent
Articles:
- “Ottoman History
Writing and Changing Attitudes towards the Notion of‘Decline’”
History Compass, 2004.
http://www.history-compass.com/viewpoint.asp?section=8&ref=28
- “Labor and
the State in the Ottoman Empire during the Nineteenth Century,”
in W. Arbid, S. Kançal et al, eds. Mediterranee, Moyen-Orient:
deux
siecles de relations internationals, recherches en homage a Jacques
Thobie, (Larmattan: Paris, 2003), 145-157.
- “Ottoman History
Writing at a Crossroads,” in Donald Quataert and Sabri Sayari,eds.,
Turkish Studies in the United States ,Bloomington, IN, 2003, 15-30.
- "Labor History
and the Ottoman Empire, 1700-1922," in Donald Quataert, Editor,
"Labor History in the Ottoman Middle East, 1700-1922," in
International Labor and Working Class History (Fall, 2001), 93-109.
- Edited with Yuksel
Duman, "A Coal Miner's Life in the Late Ottoman Empire," in
Donald Quataert, Editor, "Labor History in the Ottoman Middle East,
1700-1922," in International Labor and Working Class History
(Fall, 2001),153-179.
- "Clothing Laws,
State and Society in the Ottoman Empire, 1720-1829," International
Journal of Middle East Studies, August 1997, 403-425.
- "The Social History
of Labor in the Ottoman Empire, 1800-1914," in Ellis Jay Goldberg, ed.,
The Social History of Labor in the Middle East (Boulder, Co.,
1996), 19-36.
- "The Workers of
Salonica, 1850-1912," in Quataert and Zurcher, 1995, 59-74.
- "Ottoman Workers
and the State, 1826-1914,"' in Zachary Lockman, ed., Workers and
Working Classes in the Middle East. Struggles, Histories, Historiographies
(Albany, 1994), 21-40.
- "Janissaries,
Artisans, and the Question of Ottoman Decline, 1730-1826," 17th International
Congress of Historical Sciences, I, Chronological Section, (Madrid,
1992), 264-268.
- "Rural Unrest
in the Ottoman Empire," in Farhad Kazemi and John Waterbury, eds., Peasants
and Politics in the Modern Middle East, Miami, 1991, 38-49.
- "Ottoman Women,
Households, and Textile Manufacturing, 1800-1914," in Nikki Keddie and
Beth Baron, eds., Shifting Boundaries: Women and Gender in Middle
Eastern History, New Haven, 1991, 161-176.
- "Labor and Working
Class History during the Late Ottoman Period, c. 1800-1914," Turkish
Studies Association Bulletin, 1991, 357-369.
|
|
