Well-Connected Domains

Pascal W. Firges studied history in Heidelberg, Paris (IV), and Cambridge and is currently completing his PhD at Heidelberg University’s Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe.” He has published a monograph on British-Ottoman relations in the late eighteenth century.Tobias P. Graf has read history at the University of Cambridge before joining the Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe" in 2009. He recently defended his doctoral thesis on Christian-European "renegades" in the early modern Ottoman elite.Christian Roth works for Baden-Württemberg’s Ministry of Integration, inter alia in the fields of intercultural opening, forced marriages, and the labor market. Alongside, he is pursuing a PhD in Ottoman studies at Heidelberg University’s Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe.”Gülay Tulasoğlu is a lecturer at Hacettepe University, Ankara. In 2012, she completed her doctoral thesis on European consuls as agents of the modernization processes in the Ottoman administration of early-Tanzimat Salonica, which she is currently turning into a monograph.

• ContentsAcknowledgementsList of Maps and FiguresNotes on ConventionsAbbreviationsList of Contributors1 IntroductionPascal W. Firges and Tobias P. GrafPart I: Trade, Warfare, and Diplomacy in the Eastern MediterraneanIntroduction to Part I2 Trading between East and West: The Ottoman Empire of the Early Modern PeriodSuraiya N. Faroqhi3 Shifting Winds: Piracy, Diplomacy, and Trade in the Ottoman Mediterranean, 1624–1625Joshua M. White4 Ottoman Seas and British Privateers: Defining Maritime Territoriality in the Eighteenth-Century LevantMichael Talbot5 French Capitulations and Consular Jurisdiction in Egypt and Aleppo in the Late Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth CenturiesViorel PanaitePart II: Constructing and Managing IdentityIntroduction to Part II6 Firāsetle naẓar edesin: Recreating the Gaze of the Ottoman Slave Owner at the Confluence of Textual GenresNur Sobers-Khan7 Turks Reconsidered: Jakab Nagy de Harsány’s Changing Image of the OttomanGábor Kármán8 Of Half-Lives and Double-Lives: “Renegades” in the Ottoman Empire and their Pre-Conversion Ties, ca. 1580–1610Tobias P. Graf9 Aspects of Juridical Integration of Non-Muslims in the Ottoman Empire: Observations in the Eighteenth-Century Urban and Rural AegeanChristian RothPart III: Responding to an Age of ChallengeIntroduction to Part III10 Gunners for the Sultan: French Revolutionary Efforts to Modernize the Ottoman MilitaryPascal W. Firges11 “Humble Efforts in Search of Reform”: Consuls, Pashas, and Quarantine in Early-Tanzimat SalonicaGülay Tulasoğlu12 Transforming a Late-Ottoman Port-City: Salonica, 1876–1912Sotirios Dimitriadis13 A Civic Initiative for the Founding of a Museum in the Ottoman Province around 1850Maximilian Hartmuth14 The Transcultural Dimension of the Ottoman ConstitutionAylin KoçunyanBibliographyPrinted Primary SourcesPublished Secondary SourcesUnpublished Secondary Sources Index

'Through the rich use of primary sources, a complex set of examples of interconnectedness results, offering advanced students in Middle Eastern studies and comparative world history new insights into the extensive relations emerging between the Ottoman realm and its European neighbors in the early modern era. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.' - I. Blumi, Georgia State University, in: Choice, February 2015'[...] Well-Connected Domains makes a significant contribution to Ottoman studies as a whole, revealing both the dynamism of the field, and, indeed, its potential and openness for further entanglements with other regional historiographies and interdisciplinary methodologies'. - Natalie Rothman, Department of Historical and Cultural Studies, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada“Den Herausgeberinnen gelingt es durch eine klare und gut durchdachte Strukturierung, aus den thematisch wie methodisch sehr vielfältigen Beiträgen ein zusammenhängendes und insgesamt überzeugendes Ganzes zu formen. [... Die hier formulierte Kritik] kann [...] den Wert dieses Werkes als neuen und inspirierenden Beitrag zur entangled bzw. connected history des Osmanischen Reiches nicht schmälern. […] ein äußerst leserfreundliches Gesamtprodukt.” - Caspar Hillebrand, in: Sehepunkte, 17 (2017), Nr. 12 [http://www.sehepunkte.de/2017/12/31272.html]