Transforming Empire: The Ottomans from the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean

Serpil Atamaz, Ph.D. (2010), University of Arizona, is Associate Professor of History at California State University, Sacramento. She has published several book chapters and journal articles on women, revolution, and war in the late Ottoman Empire and on Ottoman and Iranian constitutionalists. Onur İnal, Ph.D. (2015), University of Arizona, is an environmental historian based in the Near Eastern Studies Department of the University of Vienna. He is the author of Gateway to the Mediterranean: An Environmental History of Late Ottoman Izmir (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming), and several edited collections and articles on the Ottoman Empire and modern Turkey.Alexander Schweig, Ph.D. (2019), University of Arizona, is a lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Arizona. His research focuses on the intersections between social, technological, medical, and environmental history. His most recent article is “Progressing into Disaster: The Railroad and the Spread of Cholera in a Provincial Ottoman Town,” published in History of Science.

• List of Tables and FiguresNotes on ContributorsIntroductionA List of Linda Darling’s PublicationsPart 1: Peoples1 Turkish Encounters with Monuments and the Decline of Buddhism in North IndiaRichard Eaton2 Our Man on the Danube: Habsburg-Ottoman Border Diplomacy as Perceived in the Report of ʿOsmān AghaGül Şen3 Secularist Anxieties Meet Evangelical Ones in Modern Turkish Historiography: İbrahim Müteferrika and the Risale-i İslamiyeBaki Tezcan4 Keeper of Secrets, Noble Highness: the Journey of the Mavrocordatos Family from a Borderland PerspectiveMyrsini Manney-KalogeraPart 2: Places5 Rowing to the Rescue: Defending the Black Sea 1559–60Christine Isom-Verhaaren6 Urban Reforms in Pera and other Ottoman Ports in the Aftermath of Fires in the Nineteenth CenturyFariba Zarinebaf7 Constructing Otherness in an Ottoman Borderland: Levantine Architecture in IzmirOnur İnal8 Streams of Sultanic Grace for the Grand Vizier: a Firman of Selim II on the Water Supply of Ṣoḳollu Meḥmed Pasha’s Palace (1567)Claudia RömerPart 3: Practices9 Real Transformation Starts in the Family: The Public Discourse on Marriage in Late Ottoman Turkey (1908–1918)Serpil Atamaz10 Legal Chameleons and Jurisdictional Borderlands in Nineteenth Century EgyptZiad Fahmy11 Social Worlds of Captivity: Charity and Support for Ottoman Captives in Early Modern IstanbulAli Atabey12 The Oscillating Circle: Revisiting the Ottoman Fifteenth-Century Imperial ParadigmLee Beaudoen