Fikriye Karaman, REVIEW ARTICLE/ Der Matossian, Shatterd Dreams of Revolution; Campos, Ottoman Brothers, and Ahmad, The Young Turks and the Ottoman Nationalities in Osmanlı Araştırmaları / The Journal of Ottoman Studies, XLVII (2016), 411-432 411. (original) (raw)

Historical Critique and Political Voice after the Ottoman Empire

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Gregg L Carter. Book Review: Cem Emrence. Remapping the Ottoman Middle East: Modernity, Imperial Bureaucracy and Islam. New York, NY: I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd., 2015. NETSOL, 4/2, Fall 2019, pp.74-76.

NETSOL: New Trends in Social and Liberal Sciences, 2019

Cem Emrence’s, Remapping the Ottoman Middle East, is an ambitious effort to cultivate a new analytical framework to the field of Ottoman Studies that addresses variables of socio-economic and political diversity that are often overlooked in previous studies of the Ottoman Middle East. The application of this new analytical framework functions both as a mean of explaining the uneven development witnessed in specific regions of the Ottoman Empire and revealing multiple, alternative paths to modernity in the region. Emrence’s call to implement his multi-disciplinary, intra-empire perspective is necessary, according to the author, in order to understand the variations of historical paths in the Ottoman world. Subsequently, Emrence identifies three distinct historical paths spatially situated within the Empire: the Coast, the Interior, and the Frontier. Moreover, while focus is placed on discerning these alternative paths to modernity, Emrence can address the much larger question concerning the disposition of Ottoman rule from the eighteenth century to the Empire’s demise following the War of 1914-18 and, by extension, address the implications of the empire’s demise on Middle Eastern social constructs.

The Ottoman Empire's Negotiation of Western Liberal Imperialism

Liberal Imperialism in Europe, 2012

Western liberal imperialism has often been analyzed in relation to its point of origin, namely Western Europe. There are fewer studies on its impact on the rest of the world, especially studies narrated from the vantage point of the 'receiving' empires such as the Ottoman, Persian and the Chinese. This oversight may partly be due to the fact that almost all of them met their demise at either the end of World War I or closely thereafter. Yet such analyses are necessary precisely because of the common unfortunate fate of these empires, a fate that ultimately articulates the destructive impact of Western European liberal imperialism. In this article, we study the impact of Western liberal imperialism on the Ottoman Empire. After briefly discussing the definition and dimensions of Western European liberal imperialism, we focus on its impact especially in relation to the economic, political and cultural spheres.

Review Article: Finding the Way Back to the Ottoman Empire, IHR 25 (2003), 96-107

Ottoman Past and Today's Turkey by Kemal H. Karpat; The History of Turkey by Douglas A. Howard; The Islamic World in Decline: From the Treaty of Karlowitz to the Disintegration of the Ottoman Empire by Martin Sicker; Turkey at the Crossroads: Ottoman Legacies and a Greater Middle East by Dietrich Jung; Wolfango Piccoli; Crisis of the Ottoman Empire: Prelude to Collapse, 1839-1878 by James J. Reid; The Politicization of Islam: Reconstructing Identity, State, Faith, and Community in the Late Ottoman State by Kemal H. Karpat Review by: Virginia H. Aksan