Cambridge Companion to Ottoman History

Alexis Wick is an Associate Professor of History at Koç University in Istanbul. His research focuses on Ottoman and Arab history and historiography, the history of concepts, and spatial history. Wick is the author of The Red Sea: In Search of Lost Space (2016).

• List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Contributors; Preface; Introduction: A Life in Ottoman History Suraiya Faroqhi; Part I. Sources and Structures: 1. Setting Off for the Archives Marc Aymes and Christopher Markiewicz; 2. Literary and Biographical Sources Hatice Aynur; 3. Chronicles and the Court: History Writing Ethan Menchinger; 4. Letter Collections and the Central Bureaucracy Christine Woodhead; 5. Whose Archives?: Legal Courts and the Question of the Written Document Yavuz Aykan; 6. Visual Sources for the Study of Ottoman History Emine Fetvacı; 7. Quantitative Data and the Economy Pınar Ceylan and Metin M. Coşgel; 8. An Anthropologist among Ottomanists Nada Moumtaz; Part II. Perspectives and Methods: 9. Rural History Stefan Winter; 10. Labor History Can Nacar and Hatice Yıldız; 11. Environmental History Chris Gratien; 12. Social Networks Yonca Köksal; 13. Digital History, GIS, and Spatial Humanities: Mapping the Historical Population Geography of Two Regions in Bulgaria, 1840–1934 M. Erdem Kabadayı, Grigor Boykov and Piet Gerrits; 14. Ottoman Diplomacy Güneş Işıksel; 15. Intellectual History Oscar Aguirre-Mandujano and Kerem Tinaz; 16. Approaching Ottoman Cultural History: Affect, Performance, and Aurality Aslıhan Gürbüzel and Jacob Olley; 17. Ottoman Science: Institutions, Genres, Materials A. Tunç Şen and Daniel A. Stolz; Part III. Frames and Actors: 18. Imperial Edges and Those Who Live There: A Reconsideration of the Frontier in Ottoman History Isa Blumi and Güneş Işıksel; 19. Capital and Province Marc Aymes; 20. On the Shores of Empire Antonis Hadjikyriacou and Alexis Wick; 21. Religion, Millet, and Nation Antonis Hadjikyriacou; 22. Gender and Sexuality N. İpek Hüner and Başak Tuğ; 23. Itinerant Ottomans: Refugees and Migrants as the Engine of an Empire's History Isa Blumi; 24. Humans, Animals, Plants Yonca Köksal and Can Nacar; 25. After the Ottomans? Alexis Rappas and Alexis Wick; References; Index.

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