HIST 339: The Late Ottoman Empire, 1789-1924

Course Description

The course is general survey of the history of the Ottoman Empire from the reign of Selim III, beginning in 1789, until the abolition of the caliphate in 1924. The course will examine such topics as modernization; imperialism; the rise of ethnic nationalisms among the empire?s Christian and Muslim subjects; decocracy; ideologies like Ottomanism, pan-Islamism, Islamic modernism, and pan-Turkism; and changing ideas about gender. (AY).