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Frontiers of Ottoman Studies provides a comprehensive overview of the surge in research into Ottoman history and culture over the past two decades. This first volume reflects the growing interest in the provinces, communities and cultures outside the imperial capital of Istanbul.

Was 'modernity' in the Middle East an imported piecemeal from the West? Did Ottoman society really consist of islands of sophistication in a sea of tribal conservatism, as has often been claimed? Not only affecting the way we look at Ottoman society, this book aims to change our understanding of the relationship between East, West and modernity.

Discusses the contributions that women have made to Balkan history, re-evaluating it through an interdisciplinary analysis in which gender takes its place alongside other categories such as class, culture, religion, ethnicity and nationhood. This book focuses on social relations that crossed ethnic and confessional intercommunal boundaries.

The 17th-century Ottoman-Habsburg frontier was the scene of chronic conflict. The defences of both empires were based on a line of fortresses, spanning the border. This book gives us an insight into everyday life on the frontier in this turbulent time in Ottoman history by investigating the various aspects of Ottoman forts and garrisons.

The loss of the Balkans was not merely a physical but also a psychological disaster for the Ottoman Empire. This work charts the creation of the modern Turkish self-perception during the transition period from the late Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic.

The 'Tulip Age' was an idea proposed by Ottoman historian Ahmed Refik in 1912. This work is a reassessment of the origins of this concept. It argues that the 'Tulip Age' was an important template for various political and ideological concerns of early twentieth century Turkish governments.

In the midst of political decline and burgeoning financial problems in the late 19th century, the Ottoman Empire became embroiled in a borrowing frenzy, which eventually resulted in the financial collapse of the empire. This work focuses on the handling of the external debt crisis, one of the most controversial periods of Ottoman economic history.

For more than two centuries the Levant Company enjoyed a monopoly of British trade with the Ottoman Empire and provided Britain's diplomatic representation at the Sultan's court. This work examines the supporting cast of Britons who lived and worked alongside the merchants at the Company's three principal trading posts during the 18th century.

Examines the awakening of Albanian national identity from the end of the 19th century to the outbreak of the First World War - a period of intense nationalism in the Balkans - from an Ottoman perspective. Drawing on Ottoman and European archival material, this book undermines the customary negative stereotypes of Ottoman rule.

Discusses the subjects of WWI propaganda, Turkish nationalism and national identity construction. This book concludes that the unfavourable conditions in the Ottoman-Turkish cultural sphere, the literature of the years 1914-1918, was the continuation of a project to build a national culture, inherited from the pre-war years and never completed.

In the 19th century, when the Ottoman Empire restored direct rule over Yemen, the resulting turmoil came to threaten the security of the entire Arabian Peninsula. This book describes the various military campaigns to regain control over Yemen.

The military campaign of the Ottomans, when they entered the region of Yemen in the mid-16th century, was chronicled by Qutb al-Din al-Nahrawali, a scholar charged by an Ottoman general to document his army's progress. This book provides an English translation of the 16th-century source document.

Ahmet Agaoglu's life and writings reflect huge 20th-century historical events, such as revolutions in Russia in1905 and 1917 and the establishment of Azerbaijan. This work is based on Agaoglu's journalistic output and fieldwork in the Caucasus, as well as literature of the period.