Ottoman War and Peace: Studies in Honor of Virginia H. Aksan.

475 Pages·2019·8.384 MB·English

by  Castiglione, Frank, Menchinger, Ethan, Şimşek, Veysel

Ottoman War and Peace
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The Ottoman Empire and
Its Heritage
Politics, Society and Economy
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Ottoman War and Peace
Studies in Honor of Virginia H. Aksan
Edited by
Frank Castiglione
Ethan L. Menchinger
Veysel Şimşek
leiden | boston
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Cover illustration: Johann Georg Heck, ed., Iconographic Encyclopædia of Science, Literature
and Art, vol.3, trans. Spencer F. Baird (New York: 1851), pp. 536–539, Section V, Plate 23, fig 1–17.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Castiglione, Frank, editor. | Menchinger, Ethan L., editor. |
Şimşek, Veysel, editor. | Aksan, Virginia H., honoree.
Title: Ottoman war and peace : studies in honor of Virginia H. Aksan /
edited by Frank Castiglione, Ethan L. Menchinger, Veysel Şimşek.
Description: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2020] | Series: Ottoman Empire and
its heritage: Politics, Society and Economy, 1380-6076 ; Volume 68 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2019037927 (print) | LCCN 2019037928 (ebook) | ISBN
9789004413139 (hardback) | ISBN 9789004413146 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Turkey--History--Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918. |
Turkey--History--Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918--Historiography. |
Turkey--History, Military. | Turkey--Social conditions--1288-1918. |
Turkey--Intellectual life. | Turkey--Ethnic relations.
Classification: LCC DR486 .O8828 2020 (print) | LCC DR486 (ebook) | DDC
355.020956/0903--dc23
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ISSN 1380-6076
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In Memory of Oktay Aksan
December 31, 1934 – November 13, 2013
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Contents
Acknowledgments  xiii
List of Illustrations  Xiv
Notes on Contributors  XVi
Publications by Virginia H. Aksan  xviii
Introduction  1
Frank Castiglione, Ethan L. Menchinger and Veysel Şimşek  
Part 1
Ottoman Military and Society
1 Crime among the Janissaries in the Ottoman Golden Age  13
Linda T. Darling
2 The Trouble with Timars: An Excursion into a Seventeenth-Century
Documentary Landscape  35
Victor Ostapchuk
3 Ottoman Observers of Ottoman War in the 17th Century  63
Mark Stein
4 The Azadlu Gunpowder Works: Catalyst for the Military Industry
Complexes of Istanbul  72
Kahraman Şakul
5 Drill and Discipline as a Civilizing Process: The Genesis of the Modern
Soldier in the Ottoman Empire, 1789–1826  101
Fatih Yeşil
6 Armatole Families in the 18th Century Balkans  124
Molly Greene
7 Under Fire and Lice: Experiences of an Ottoman Soldier in the First
World War and the Turkish War of Independence (1919–1922)  143
Veysel Şimşek
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