HUM 208 – History of Ottoman Empire II
Course Content:
The years of the Osmanlı İmparatorluğu from the 1600s until 1808, when the period of III. Selim ended. The changes occurring in the empire’s political, administrative, economic, and social structure in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and its relations with European states and the impact of these relations on the change in the Osmanlı.
Topics Covered:
Week 1: Introduction, introduction of the course and resources
Week 2: The period of IV. Murat (1623-1640)
Week 3: The period of Köprülüler (1656-1683)
Week 4: The seventeenth century: Osmanlı elites and bureaucracy
Week 5: Midterm exam; The seventeenth century: Anadolu and the Osmanlı peasant
Week 6: The seventeenth century: Osmanlı religious institutions
Week 7: State and economy in the Osmanlı
Week 8: The Osmanlı Devleti and capitalist world-economy: The rise of İzmir
Week 9: The eighteenth century: Decline, or the dissolution of central authority?
Week 10: The eighteenth century: Wars
Week 11: The eighteenth century: Provincial states and ayanlar
Week 12: Midterm exam; The eighteenth century: Economy
Week 13: The eighteenth century: Cultural and intellectual developments, the arrival of the printing press
Week 14: III. Selim and the first reform attempts
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