This course is designed to introduce students to the major topical issues and debates as well as the newest methodological approaches to late Ottoman history starting from the seventeenth century to twilight years of the Ottoman empire. Throughout the past decade, quite a flurry of publications keeps surfacing on late Ottoman history. This class is designed help students navigate the broader, more important issues informing mainstream historiography on the Ottoman empire whilst showing students how to make the study of Ottoman historiography relevant to other fields and disciplines. This period is likewise marked by rampant external and internal crises followed by efforts of central imperial authorities as well as imperial rival governments to implement social, economic, and legal reforms to stave off corruption, disorder, violence, and non-Muslim discontent/nationalist movements against imperial rule. Therefore, this class explores the often overlooked connections between inter-imperial conflict and intrigue and Ottoman domestic reform throughout the semester.
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