THE TURKISH REVOLUTION I - HIST. 301 (4)2013 SUMMER

Class Meeting Location ENG B16Class Meeting Times MN A4,MN A5,TH A4,TH A5,TU A4,TU A5,WE A4,WE A5 Instructor SEMA AKBOĞAOffice HoursOffice LocationOffice PhoneEmail sakboga@ku.edu.trWeb Address Number of Credits 3ECTS Credits 6Prerequisites ACWR. 101Language English

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Course Description

The evolution of the reforms from the Tanzimat Period to the Kemalist period is studied during the period between 1839 and 1938,including their political, economic and social aspects.

Course Objectives

Students will be taught the importance of Industrial Revolution and French Revolution and how these events had affected the OttomanEmpire.

Students will be taught the main characteristics of the Ottoman classical system and they will be taught how the classical systemgradually evolved starting from the 17th century.

Students will be taught the major socioeconomic, political, military, and cultural reforms, processes, and developments that shapedthe Ottoman Empire starting from Selim III?s reign.

Students will be taught the emergence of Young Ottomans and Young Turks.

Students will be taught the processes that resulted in a shift of power to Committee of Union and Progress and they will be taught thedevelopments that led to the Ottoman Empire?s participation in the First World War.

Students will be taught the War of Liberation and major reforms that were undertaken by the republican elite in the 1920s.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this course, students will be able to evaluate the role of French Revolution and Industrial Revolution on thetransformation of the empires into nation states.

On completion of this course, students will be able to comprehend how French Revolution and Industrial Revolution pushed OttomanEmpire to evaluate its economic, political, and military structure.

On completion of this course, students will be able to explain how Ottoman Empire transformed into the Republic of Turkey.

On completion of this course, students will be able to acknowledge/recognize the continuity and break that characterize thetransformation of the Ottoman Empire into the Republic of Turkey.

Teaching Methods

Lectures and interactive class discussions

Course Contents

SessionNumber

StartingDate Topics

2 17/06/2013 European transformation and French Revolution2 19/06/2013 Transformation of the classical system, reforms of Selim III and Mahmud II2 24/06/2013 The Reign of Mahmud II Eastern Question/Vienna Congress/International Context1 26/06/2013 Economic overview: provisionism, mercantilism, liberalism Industrial Revolution1 27/06/2013 Tanzimat era1 01/07/2013 Young Ottomans Eastern Question Reconsidered/International Context1 02/07/2013 Reign of Abdülhamid II, 1876-1909 and the Opposition: The Young Turks

1 08/07/2013 Young Turk ideology and Revolution of 1908, Second Constitutional Period, CUP's supervisory government:1908-1913

1 09/07/2013 The rise of Turkish nationalism and national economy under CUP rule1 10/07/2013 Turkey in the World War I1 11/07/2013 National Resistance Movement and Lausanne Peace Treaty1 15/07/2013 Turkey in the 1920s: Consolidation of Republican Peoples? Party Rule

Assessment Methods

Type Description Final Grade, %Midterm Test Mid-Term Exam Identification and essay questions 35Final Exam Final exam Identification and essay questions 35Quiz Pop quizzes 15Project Presentation and report 9Other Participation 6Total 100

Workload Breakdown

Type Description HoursLecture Lectures and readings Attending and preparing for the lectures Reading the required texts 100Exam Preparing for mid-term and final exam 50Project Preparing for the presentation 30Total 180

Sources

Required Readings

Barber, N. (2006). ?The French Revolution and the Napoleonic Era (1789-1815).? Peterson?s AP European History. USA:Thomson Peterson?s, 149-164. Quataert, D. (2005). ?The Ottoman Empire, 1683-1798.? The Ottoman Empire, 1700-1922.Cambridge UP, 37-42. Itzkowitz, N. (1980). ?Ottoman Consciousness.? Ottoman Empire and Islamic Tradition.Chicago:University of Chicago Press, 87-97. Barkey, K. (2008). ?The Transformation of the Eighteenth Century.? Empire ofDifference: The Ottomans in Comparative Perspective. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 206-225. Zürcher, E. J. (2004). ?The EarlyYears of Sultan Mahmud II: The Center Tries to Regain Control, The Later Years of Sultan Mahmud II: The Start of the Reforms.?Turkey: A Modern History. New York: I.B. Tauris & Co.Ltd., 39-45. Macfie, A.L (1996). ?The Eastern Question? and ?The GreatPowers and the Ottoman Empire.? The Eastern Question. London: Longman, pp. 1-4, 74-76. Zürcher, E. J. (2004). ?The EarlyYears of Sultan Mahmud II: The Center Tries to Regain Control, The Later Years of Sultan Mahmud II: The Start of the Reforms .?Turkey: A Modern History. New York: I.B. Tauris & Co.Ltd., 30-39 Barber, N. (2006). ?The Agricultural and IndustrialRevolutions.? Peterson?s AP European History. USA: Thomson Peterson?s, 167-175. Genç, M. (2002). ?Osmanlı İktisadiDünya Görüşünün İlkeleri.? Osmanlı İmparatorluğunda Devlet ve Ekonomi. Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, 43-52. Clark, E.C. (1974).?The Ottoman Industrial Revolution.? International Journal of Middle East Studies, vol. 5, no. 1, 65-76. Findley, C. V. (2008) ?The Tanzimat.? In Cambridge History of Turkey Vol. 4, edited by Resat Kasaba .Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 11-37. Lewis, B.(1968). ?The Seeds of Revolution.? The Emergence of Modern Turkey. London: Oxford UP, 136 ? 159. Zürcher, E. J. (2004). ?The Era of the Tanzimat, 1839-71? and ?The Crisis of 1873-78 and its Aftermath.? Turkey: A Modern History. New York: I.B.Tauris & Co.Ltd.,51-56, pp. 71-75.Fortna, B. C. (2008). ?The Reign of Abdulhamid II.? In Cambridge History of Turkey Vol. 4, edited by Resat Kasaba.Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 38-61. Zürcher, Erik J. (2004). ?Reactionary Despotism or Culmination of Reforms? The Reign ofAbdulhamid II? In Turkey: A Modern History. New York: I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd., pp. 85-90. Akşin, S. (2007). ?StructuralCharacteristics of the CUP and the 31 March Incident? and ?The CUP Supervisory Government ? from the 31 March Incident to1913.? Turkey: From Empire to Revolutionary Republic. New York: New York University Press, 53-81. Georgeon, F. (2000). ?Ulusal Hareketin Iki Lideri: Ziya Gokalp ve Yusuf Akcura (Two Leaders of the National Movement: Ziya Gokalp and Yusuf

Akcura).? In OttomanTurkish Modernization (1900-1930), edited by Francois Georgeon. İstanbul: Yapi Kredi Kultur ve SanatYayincilik, 91-101. Ahmad, F. (2008). ?Vanguard of a Nascent Bourgeoisie: The Social and Economic Policy of the YoungTurks, 1908-1918.? In From Empire to Republic: Essays on the Late Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey, vol.1, edited byFeroz Ahmad. Istanbul: Istanbul Bilgi University Press, 23-61. Palmowski, J. (2008). "World War I" A Dictionary of ContemporaryWorld History. Jan Palmowski. Oxford University Press, 2008. Oxford Reference Online. Oxford UniversityPress.http://0www.oxfordreference.com.libunix.ku.edu.tr/views/ENTRY.html?subview=Main&entry=t46.e2516. Koc University, 27August 2011. Ahmad, F. (2010). ?1914-1918 Savaşı Sırasında Jön Türk Politikasının İkilemleri. ? In Tarık Zafer Tunaya AnısınaYadigar-ı Meşrutiyet, edited by M.Ö. Alkan. Istanbul: Istanbul Bilgi UP, 37-53. Kayalı, H. (2008). ?The Struggle forIndependence.? In Cambridge History of Turkey Vol. 4, edited by Resat Kasaba. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 112-146. Zürcher, E. (2005). ?The Emergence of the One Party State, 1923-1927.? Turkey: a Modern History. London: I.B. Tauris,166-175. Zürcher, E. (2004). ?Institution Building in the Kemalist Republic: The Role of the People's Party.? In Men of order:Authoritarian Modernization under Atatürk and Reza Shah, edited by Touraj Atabaki and Erik Jan Zürcher. London: I.B. Tauris,98-112.

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