Modernization in the Late Ottoman Era: "Periphery" in the Heartlands - Paperback

by Fatma Melek Arıkan (Author)

This volume is a local history, focusing on experiences of people and communities as they navigated and enacted institutions and transformations associated with modernization in the late Ottoman era. Focusing on the local political arena of two neighbouring Western Anatolian towns, Yenişehir and İznik.

Author Biography

Fatma Melek Arıkan obtained her Ph.D. in History from Sabancı University

in 2018. Her research interests are local history, political and historical anthropology,

state formation and the 19th_century Ottoman Empire.