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The Frontiers of the Ottoman World
Edited by A.C.S. Peacock
618 pages
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246x188mm
978-0-19-726442-3
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Hardback
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03 December 2009
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- Offers new perspectives on the formation of the early modern and modern worlds in Eastern/Central Europe and the Middle East.
This is the first major comparative study of the frontiers of the Ottoman Empire, one of the crucial forces that shaped the modern world. The essays combine archaeological and historical approaches to further understanding of how this major empire approached the challenge of controlling frontiers as diverse and far-flung as Central and Eastern Europe, Anatolia, Iraq, Arabia, and the Sudan.
Ranging across the 15th to early 20th centuries, essays cover frontier fortifications, administration, society,
and economy and shed light on the Ottomans' interaction with their neighbours, both Muslim and Christian, through warfare, trade and diplomacy. As well as summing up the current state of knowledge they also point the way to fresh avenues of research.
The Frontiers of the Ottoman World will be essential reading for historians and archaeologists of the Middle East and early modern Central and Eastern Europe. Giving a particular prominence to the nascent discipline of Ottoman archaeology, the volume will also be of particular interest to students of Islamic archaeology.Readership: Scholars and students of Middle Eastern and Central European History and Archaeology.
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Edited by A.C.S. Peacock, Assistant Director, British Institute at Ankara Contributors:
ACS Peacock
Palmira Brummet
Gábor Ágoston
Andrew Petersen
Denys Pringle
Malcolm Wagstaff
Svitlana Bilyayeva and Victor Ostapchuk
Lucienne Thys-Senocak, Rahmi Nurhan Çelik, Arzu Özsavasçi and Gülhan Tanyeli
Tom Sinclair
John Alexander
Frederick Anscombe
Kahraman Sakul
Gökhan Çetinsaya
Isa Blumi
Sara Nur Yildiz
Rossitsa Gradeva
Rhoads Murphey
Intisar Elzein
Ibolya
Gerelyes
Richard Carlton and Alan Rushworth
Neil Faulkner and Nick Saunders
Mark Stein
M. Mallinson, C. Breen, W. Forsythe, J. Phillips and L. Smith
Colin Heywood
Paul Lane and Douglas Johnson
Caroline Finkel
Burcu Ozgüven
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"This is a very welcome volume ... Taken together, the articles in the collection cover a remarkable geographical and chronological range ... the editor and contributors have produced a fine volume, presenting both concrete results and invaluable guidelines for future research." - Colin Imber, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies "This is a mixed volume, with a variety of approaches ... It is clear, however, that archaeological research has much to offer and will make a significant contribution to Ottoman historical study." - Christine Woodhead, English Historical Review "represents a major and welcome contribution to the study of Ottoman frontiers. The thematic, methodological,
geographic and chronological diversity of the essays contained in it may be of great use to any reader interested in the subject, not only with regard to the new evidence presented, but also, and even more importantly so, for the new questions that this essay collection may generate in the process of the further study of the Ottoman frontier." - Nikolay Antov, Comparativ "[a] beautifully produced book" - Peter Clark, Asian Affairs "rich illustrations, as well as the use of full footnotes rather than endnotes, make this a very user-friendly book. Produced to the highest standard, it belongs in the library of any individual or institution interested in the Ottoman Empire as a whole or its former provinces." - Dimitris J.
Kastritsis, Journal of Arabian Studies
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ACS Peacock: Introduction: the Ottoman Empire and its frontiers
Part One: Frontier Fortifications
Palmira Brummet: The Fortress: defining and mapping the Ottoman frontier in the 16th-17th centuries
Gábor Ágoston: Where environmental and frontier studies meet: rivers, forests, marshes, and fortifications along the Ottoman-Hapsburg frontier in Hungary
Andrew Petersen: The Ottoman conquest of Arabia and the Syrian hajj route
Denys Pringle: 'Aqaba Castle in the Ottoman period, 1517-1917
Malcolm Wagstaff: Evliya Çelebi, the Mani and the fortress of Kelefa
Svitlana Bilyayeva and Victor Ostapchuk: The Ottoman northern Black Sea frontier at Akkerman Fortress: the present view from a historical and archaeological project
Burcu Özgüven: Palanka forts and construction activity in the late Ottoman Balkans
Lucienne Thys-Senocak, Rahmi Nurhan Çelik, Arzu Özsavasçi and Gülhan Tanyeli: Understanding archaeology and architecture through archival records: the restoration project of the Ottoman fortress of Seddülbahir on the Gallipoli Peninsula of Turkey
Part Two: The administration of the frontier
Tom Sinclair: Administration and fortification in the Van region under Ottoman rule in the 16th century
John Alexander: Ottoman frontier policies in northeast Africa, 1517-1914
Frederick Anscombe: Continuities in Ottoman centre-periphery relations, 1787-1915
Kahraman Sakul: Ottoman attempts to control the Adriatic frontier in the Napoleonic Wars
Gökhan Çetinsaya: Challenges of a frontier region: the case of Ottoman Iraq in the 19th century
Isa Blumi: The frontier as a measure of modern power: local limits to empire in Yemen, 1872- 1914
Part Three: Frontier Society: rulers, ruled and revolt
Sara Nur Yildiz: Razing Gevele and fortifying Konya: the beginning of the Ottoman conquest of the Karamanid principality in south-central Anatolia, 1468
Rossitsa Gradeva: Between the hinterland and the frontier: Ottoman Vidin, 15th to 18th centuries
Rhoads Murphey: The garrison and its hinterland in the Ottoman east, 1578-1605
Intisar Elzein: Ottoman archaeology on the Middle Nile Valley in the Sudan
Ibolya Gerelyes: Garrisons and the local population in Ottoman Hungary: the testimony of the archaeological finds
Richard Carlton and Alan Rushworth: The Krajina Project: exploring the Ottoman-Hapsburg borderland
Neil Faulkner and Nick Saunders: War without frontiers: the archaeology of the Arab Revolt, 1916-18
Part Four: The Economy of the Frontier
Mark Stein: Military service and material gain on the Ottoman-Hapsburg frontier
M. Mallinson, C. Breen, W. Forsythe, J. Phillips and L. Smith: Ottoman Suakin 1541 - 1865 AD - lost and found
Colin Heywood: A frontier without archaeology? The Ottoman maritime frontier in the western Mediterranean, 1660-1760
Paul Lane and Douglas Johnson: The archaeology and history of slavery in South Sudan in the 19th century
Caroline Finkel: Conclusion
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