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Item From antiquarianism to urban archaeology :|transformation of research on ‘Old’ Istanbul throughout the nineteenth century(Thesis (Ph.D.) - Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2021., 2021.) Sümertaş, Firuzan Melike.; Ersoy, Ahmet.This dissertation is a study of a nineteenth-century intellectual network gathered around the agency of ‘old’ Constantinople as an object of antiquarian knowledge. The actors of the network are intellectuals from different backgrounds and institutions who have extensively studied different features of the long-term history of Constantinople with a particular focus on its pre-Ottoman (Byzantine) past and its physical remnants. The study deciphers its actors in relation to the intensity of their relationship with these remnants, which materialize as hubs of the network. When it comes to the study of the material past of the Byzantine layer of Constantinople, these hubs are mostly occupied by Greek-Orthodox intellectuals and institutions which published books and conducted research projects thanks to their close engagement with the urban antiquarian history of Constantinople, such as Patriarch Kōnstantios I (1770-1859), Skarlatos Byzantios (1797-1878), Alexander G. Paspatēs (1814-1891) and the Greek Literary Society of Constantinople (the Syllogos). ‘Old’ Constantinople in this dissertation is an object of knowledge in itself that creates links between various actors that were one way or another engaged with that object. The representation of this object is formed through the accumulation of knowledge on the historical urban material context and its emergence in different solid forms, such as books, journals, maps, illustrations and the like. Through close scrutiny of these representations, and the network that surround them, the thesis investigates the transformation of the knowledge on the historical material context of Constantinople from ‘urban antiquarianism’ to ‘urban archaeology throughout the nineteenth century.Item Nomadic pastoral tribes at the intersection of the Ottoman, Persian and Russian Empires (1820s–1890s)(Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2020., 2020.) Koç, Yener.; Ersoy, Ahmet.; Toksöz, Meltem.This dissertation studies the changing military, political and economic relations between the Ottoman Empire and pastoral nomadic tribes that were wandering at the intersection of the Ottoman, Persian and Russian imperial borders during the long nineteenth century. Focusing on the nomadic pastoral Zilan, Celali and Haydaran tribes, I discuss how imperial wars, the making of the borders and imperial policies influenced tribes and tribe-state relations. It argues that despite such developments deeply influenced the political, social, and economic organization of the tribes, as well as their pastoral habitat and their local relations, these developments created new political and institutional spaces for the tribes in which they actively participated. Particular attention is paid to the frontiers of the Ottoman Empire and its tribal policy starting from the 1850s. The dissertation demonstrates how the reforms of the nineteenth century Ottoman Empire were redefined at local level in relation to the changing dynamics of tribal responses and border politics. Rather than seeing tribes and states as two hostile camps, it discusses how they complemented each other politically, militarily, and economically at several occasions. This dissertation also discusses how pasturing grounds became sites of contention among the tribes and between the peasantry and tribes during the late nineteenth century due to the increasing commercialization of the pastoral production. It indicates how direct relations between tribes and the Ottoman Empire, and the commercialization of pastoral production led to the internal stratification, and territorialization of the tribal groups.Item The art historiographical odyssey of Ernst Diez(Thesis (Ph.D.)-Bogazici University. Institute for Graduate Studies in the Social Sciences, 2018., 2018.) Tonbul, Zehra.; Ersoy, Ahmet.; Ritter, Markus,The thesis traces the biography of Ernst Diez as a signifier of the transformations of Austro-German art historical scholarship in the first half of the twentieth century. It derives its incentive from the criticisms against Diez’s reading of Byzantine and Armenian precedents to Turkish art and architecture in his 1946 book Türk Sanatı. The thesis interprets this controversy as a confrontation of Diez’s academic and intellectual background in turn of the century Vienna. Diez’s biographical journey from Vienna to the United States and to the 1940s Turkey presents an art historiographical odyssey in which the art historiographical know-how of the beginning of the century, particularly as established in Vienna, confronts new contexts as well as re-definitions.