Colonialism, slavery, and trade

In both western Turkey and the Levant, archaeology has a long history, with the rise in interest and discovery beginning in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. While many have focused on the history of excavations in both of these areas, we approach historical analyses from a different perspective. Uti…

• CHRISTINA MARIE LUKE ROOSEVELT

In both western Turkey and the Levant, archaeology has a long history, with the rise in interest and discovery beginning in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. While many have focused on the history of excavations in both of these areas, we approach historical analyses from a different perspective. Uti…

• CHRISTOPHER HAVEMEYER ROOSEVELT

Despite having key implications for fundamental political science questions, slavery as a global phenomenon has received little attention in the field. We argue that slavery played an important role in state-building and international order formation. To counter a historical U.S./Atlantic bias, we draw evidence mostly…

• AYŞE ZARAKOL JAJICH

Despite having key implications for fundamental political science questions, slavery as a global phenomenon has received little attention in the field. We argue that slavery played an important role in state-building and international order formation. To counter a historical U.S./Atlantic bias, we draw evidence mostly…

• AYŞE ZARAKOL JAJICH

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Abstract Using new evidence uncovered from Istanbul court records, this paper shows that Ottoman markets were capable of spontaneous financial innovation before the introduction of modern financial instruments. At the same time, however, it demonstrates that the impact and sustainability of these innovations depended…

Bu çalışmada 15. Yüzyılda Portekiz, ardından İspanya ve daha sonra İngiltere, Hollanda ve Fransa’da başlayan sömürgecilik hareketleri, sömürgecilik hareketlerinin Avrupa’nın yanı sıra Güney Amerika, Afrika’daki etkileri, fiyat devrimi, hastalık ve mikropların yayılması ile sömürgecilik ideolojisi ele alınmıştır. Sömür…

• AHMET UTKU ÖZENSOY

This study investigates the development of early modern Ottoman consumer culture. In particular, the democratization of consumption, which is a significant indicator of the development of western consumer cultures, is examined in relation to Ottoman society. Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century probate inventories of th…

• EMİNEGÜL KARABABA

Abstract This article examines the modes of time and work discipline that emerged through factory industry in colonial Bombay. Based on a wide range of archival sources, it shows that mechanized production did not invariably suggest a transition from task-based, irregular to clock-measured, rationally organized work p…

• HATİCE YILDIZ

There is a general consensus among Ottomanists that capital punishment became a rare occurrence in the Ottoman Empire from the 1840s onwards. This paper argues that two structural aspects of the reformed criminal justice system functioned as constraints on the imposition of the death penalty in the late Ottoman Empire…

• EBRU AYKUT TÜRKER

Bu çalışmanın zaman sınırlılığı 17. yüzyılın başlarında Babürlü Devleti’nin hükümdarı Cihangir Şah Dönemi’ne isabet etmektedir. Çalışmanın amacı ise, İngilizlerin Hind deniz ticaretine sahip olmak için Hindistan’da varlık gösterdiği ilk yıllarda, seyyah, tüccar ve elçiler aracılığı ile Hindistan’da tutunma çabalarının…

• CANAN KUŞ BÜYÜKTAŞ

ABSTRACT Despite being perceived as a remnant of the past, slavery persists in today's increasingly economized and biopoliticized world. To thematize the actuality of slavery, we initially return to Aristotle's discussion/justification of slavery as instrumentalization of human beings. Then we revisit Plato's allegory…

• BÜLENT DİKEN