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... Mediterranean is a model social history of family life, using sharia court records to draw a rich and complex picture of the Eastern Mediterranean between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries. Reading and tabulating some fifteen thousand documents from two extensive collections of sharia court records...

... on the political economy of different localities across the Ottoman Eastern Mediterranean and, perhaps, well beyond. Taken together, both aspects of the framework reveal the complexity of the Ottoman legal landscape. They also suggest new directions in which Family Life in the Ottoman Mediterranean could...

... and comparing statistics from across the empire. The projects undertaken drew from existing provincial statistics-gathering institutions and served to reveal differences across provinces in a step toward greater empire-wide legibility. Focusing on the empire's Eastern Mediterranean provinces, the article...

... finance reshapes the resources of the Eastern Mediterranean and migrant laborers depart its shores to work in textile mills in Argentina, Brazil, and the United States. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 slavery mercantilism Buṭrus al-Bustānī Robinson Crusoe...

... East but the author more ap- propriately refers to as the Eastern Mediterranean; and brings together an exhaustive analysis of the activities and intentions of Western do- gooders with a forceful and nuanced argument for the im- portance of local actors. The author stakes out new ground in a discussion...

... of the eastern Mediterranean’s experi- Sam Okoth Opondo is an assistant professor in politi- ence of Allied occupation during and after the First cal science and Africana studies at Vassar College. World War. His research interests include smuggling, His research focuses on the dynamics of mediating...

... sphere of influence has held renewed attraction. Economic and political initiatives and educational and cultural projects have promoted transnational exchanges under the auspices of Mediterranean unity. Correspondingly, several Middle Eastern and North African scholars and writers have embraced...

... Rashid . “ The ‘Middle East’ as a Framework of Analysis: Re-Mapping a Region in the Era of Globalization .” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 18 , no. 1 ( 1998 ): 74 – 81 . Khuri-Makdisi Ilham . The Eastern Mediterranean and the Making of Global Radicalism...

... attempts to do just that for the late Ottoman Eastern Mediterranean. Following Doumani's work, Guy Burak considers how such a revisionist historiography can both account for the imperial legal landscape around family life and the different traditions of Hanafi jurisprudence at work in variegated local...

... consequences over previous decades.2 Rather, the entry of Allied military forces into Istanbul and other occupied sites in the eastern Mediterranean interrupted, redirected, intensified, and variegated the shifting rhythms of the city and ongoing attempts at time disciplining. Perhaps most pertinent...

... Models in the Mediterranean and the Middle East .” Cambridge Anthropology 16 , no. 2 ( 1992–93 ): 3 – 21 . Thompson William R. “ Delineating Regional Subsystems: Visit Networks and the Middle Eastern Case .” International Journal of Middle East Studies 13 , no. 2 ( 1981 ): 213 – 35...

... was the way to close the Levant Crisis while maintaining European maritime domination of the Mediterranean. To enforce their decision to reign in Mehmet Ali, the Great Powers decided to officially declare the straits to the Bosporus as mare clausum while moving to blockade the major ports of the Eastern...

... of theory are confounded, and the both . . . dles both the Western and Eastern Mediterranean and appears less a correlative conjunction than a to make an important contribution to colonial dizzyingly fluid circulation. studies, as well as to Ottoman...

... the Ottoman Era to the British Mandate, the Prominent Families in the Eastern Mediterranean”) . Cahiers de la Méditerranée 82 ( 2011 ): 267 – 96 . Brown Leon Carl , ed. Imperial Legacy: The Ottoman Imprint on the Balkans and the Middle East . New York : Columbia University Press , 1996...

... Nahda . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2019 . Hourani Albert . Arabic Thought in the Liberal Age . New York : Oxford University Press , 1962 . Khuri-Makdisi Ilham . The Eastern Mediterranean and the Making of Global Radicalism, 1860–1914 . Berkeley : University...

... ritualized), primed them for rehabilitation. Un- doubtedly, the extensive rape of Armenian girls and women, and the pregnancies that certainly ensued, compounded the seeming need for reha- bilitation. The initial Protestant mission to convert Eastern Mediterranean Christians to Protestant- ism was also...

...   -   31, x   Vol. tions of the Ottoman past from some of the empire’s successor states along the southern and     Press eastern Mediterranean shores, areas conventionally lumped together as part...

... in the Eastern Mediterranean, in the interwar period. This is the moment, in other words, that religiously- inspired charity shifts to what he calls organized compassion, enacted in bureaucratic, professionalized form. With this history, Bread from Stones offers a number of important insights into our...

...    Vol. Press Twentieth Century, ed. Israel Gershoni, Amy Singer, and Y. Hakan Thought in the Eastern Mediterranean: Late Nineteenth Century Erdem (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2006), 131 – 82. until the 1960s (Leiden: Brill, 2008).         10.1215/1089201 University...

... tributions to make to the world of scholarship Watenpaugh terms the “technologies” of public well beyond the “Eastern Mediterranean” region sphere debate allowed for the emergence and he generalizes about in this study. Scholars...