Introduction: Living in the Ottoman House

Year 2014, Volume: 44 Issue: 44, 1 - 9, 15.04.2014

Virginia H. Aksan

https://doi.org/10.18589/oa.559904

Abstract

Biography is back with a vengeance in the writing of history under the guise

of the exploration of “identity” in late multi-ethnic imperial settings. We are experiencing

an age of tremendous upheaval and angst about the future of the post

WWII nation-state which has led in turn to questions about the nature of subjecthood,

citizenship and community especially in the pre-modern world, just one

reason that the study of the Ottoman Empire has become such a growth industry.

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Introduction: Living in the Ottoman House

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