Society and Politics in the Late Ottoman Empire

Course content

The course aims to familiarize students with social developments and politics of the Ottoman Empire from 1703 to 1922. While there is an introduction about the early modern era, the emphasis is on the nineteenth-century trends and events. The last decades of the Empire will also be discussed in order to help the students comprehend some of the dynamics of the transition from the Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic. In addition to significant historical events and key political figures, different perspectives offered to understand the historical trajectory in question are also discussed and analyzed throughout the semester.