"The Empire and I"

As renewed imperial ambitions endanger our modern democratic systems, imperial research takes stronger interest in individuals and their actions inside imperial structures. While history has traditionally focused on the actions of “Great Men”, imperial studies now also focus on the entirety of imperial agents and subjects.

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Early Modern Diplomacy (@emdiplomacy@hcommons.social)

We start off with Tracey A. Sowerby who many of you already know from her many publications and conferences that she organised. On the international scene, she really put #emdiplomacy and its cultural aspects back on the map. She especially focusses on #diplomatic cultures, on #gender and #earlymodern #diplomacy and cross-confessional #diplomacy. In 2021, she edited a volume on diplomatic cultures at the Ottoman Court. https://www.routledge.com/Diplomatic-Cultures-at-the-Ottoman-Court-c15001630/Sowerby-Markiewicz/p/book/9780367767426 (2/n) @historikerinnen@a.gup.pe @earlymodern@a.gup.pe @histodons@a.gup.pe @womenknowhistory@historians.social

What is in a (family) name?

Nils Riecken Beginning with its census campaigns in the late nineteenth century, the Ottomans sought to identify all subjects of the Sultan, males, females, and children. In contrast, earlier imperial surveys only registered adult males for the purpose of military conscription and taxation. This shift had a global dimension, occurring in several empires after 1850. […]

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“A Right Notion of Life”: The Ottomans in 1700

A discussion of teaching the Ottoman Empire in 1700 using an image of the Sultan’s mother drinking coffee.