HIST 439 U3 - The Ottoman Empire

Campus: Urbana-Champaign

Description:

Economy, society, law, and government; the Ottomans and Mediterranean society; Ottoman culture and Islamic tradition; minorities; trade, diplomacy, and capitulations; "decline" and dismemberment; and traditional and westernizing attempts at revival. Course Information: 3 undergraduate hours. 2 or 4 graduate hours.

Special Instructions:

Title: The Ottoman Empire Topic: This course introduces the hisotry of one of the great imperial formations of the early modern and modern period, which had long-standing repercussions on the development of Europe, the Near East, and North Africa. It covers the whole span of Ottoman history, and will pay special attention to some of the following problems: the political rise of the Ottoman state since the thirteenth century and how it became an empire, its socia land administrative structure, the classical Ottoman ecnonomic system, Ottoman impact on the societies, politics, economies and cultures of Byzantium and the medieval Balkan states, the spread of Islam in Europe, the transformations of the Ottoman polity and society, aspects of what has been conventionally named as Ottoman decline, the Eastern question in international relations, the modernizing reforms of the nineteenth century, and the spread of nationalism as a prelude to the final demise of the supranational empire in t

Option 1

Course Level: Graduate

Credit: 3

Term(s): Fall