The Early Modern Ottomans

3 Credits · Level: Graduate

The course introduces students to the history and historiography of the early modern Ottoman Empire, which ruled a vast region stretching from Hungary in the north to Yemen in the south and from Algeria in the west to Iraq in the east. We will examine the sources and approaches historians have used to study topics such as conquest, imperial rivalries among the Ottomans, the Habsburgs, and the Safavids, resource management, military power and warfare, soft power and lawfare, and provincial administration and border control. We will also consider how new research in environmental, social, economic, military, and diplomatic history, along with digital and quantitative historical methods, have enriched the study of the Ottoman Empire.