E172 | The nineteenth century was a period when world empires sought to settle nomads and immigrants in the countryside for the purposes of encouraging cultivation and loyalty to expanding states. Yet, at the same time, the economic consequences of global

E171 | Soğutma teknolojisinden önce dahi, kar ve buz gerek Osmanlı sarayı tarafından, gerekse halk tarafından oldukça kullanılan bir meta idi. Bu podcastımızda Burcu Kurt ile sanayileşmenin bu iki metanın üretim ve tüketimini nasıl etkiledi

E170 | Historians face numerous challenges when attempting to excavate the Palestinian past. Palestinians are often erased from the landscape and their voices are wiped from the historical record. This is especially true with regards to the Ottoman past,

E169 | The movements of celestial bodies had long been of tremendous importance within the social and religious spheres throughout the Muslim world. As new understandings of space and time began to emerge during the nineteenth century, longstanding astron

The Wild Field E09 | The border regions shared by Poland-Lithuania and the Ottoman Empire were a tumultuous zone – a patchwork of regions directly administered by Warsaw and Istanbul, or through client rulers and vassals in Crimea, Moldavia, and Wallach

E168 | Although seldom presented as such, famine, hunger, and disease were major forces influencing and shaping life in the countryside of the Ottoman Empire from its beginning until its final years. In this episode, we discuss the global conversation sur

E167 | Bu podcastımızda Prof. Dr. Cem Behar ile 2003 yılında İngilizce olarak bastığı ve geçtiğimiz aylarda genişletilmiş bir Türkçe baskısını da yayınladığı kitabının konusu olan Kasap İlyas Mahallesi hakkında konuştuk. Modernle

The Wild Field E08 | Ottoman imperial space was not always tied to permanent structures. For centuries tents functioned as mobile palaces, providing domestic space and ceremonial stage settings reinforcing the power of the Padishah. Considering the materi

E166 | While state support of archives enables the production of history, state control of archives can often hinder it. In Israel, the nature of the expulsion of Palestinians in 1948, an event in known in Arabic as the Nakba, has been at the center of po

E165 | While Lebanon is home to a rich base of historical sources, the nature of public institutions and the impacts of the long civil war have resulted in a situation wherein archival documents are decentralized and spread across many private institution