Assistant Course Description Course Objectives Learning Outcomes

THE TURKISH REVOLUTION I - HIST. 301 (21)
2013 SPRING
Class Meeting Location CAS 133
Class Meeting Times
MN B3,WE B3
Instructor
Office Hours
Office Location
Office Phone
Email
Web Address
EDA DALOĞLU
Number of Credits
ECTS Credits
Prerequisites
Language
3
6
COMM. 101
English
SOS 243
1579
[email protected]
Assistant
N/A
Course Description
The evolution of the reforms from the Tanzimat Period to the Kemalist period is studied through 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 transforming events had an
impact on Ottoman Empire
Students will be taught the main characteristics of the Ottoman classical system and they will be taught how the classical system
gradually evolved starting from the 17th century
Students will be taught the major socioeconomic, political, military, and cultural reforms, processes, and developments that shaped
the 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 shift of power to Committee of Union and Progress and they will be taught the
developments that led to Ottoman Empire?s participation in First World War
Students will be taught the War of Liberation and major reforms that were undertaken by the republican elite in 1920s
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, students will be able to evaluate the role of French Revolution and Industrial Revolution on transforming
empires into nation states
On completion of this course, students will be able to comprehend how French Revolution and Industrial Revolution pushed Ottoman
Empire to evaluate its economic, political and military structure
On completion of this course, students will be able to explain how Ottoman Empire transformed into Republic of Turkey
On completion of this course, students will be able to acknowledge/recognize the continuity and break that characterize the
transformation of Ottoman Empire into Republic of Turkey
Teaching Methods
Lectures and interactive class discussions
Course Contents
Session Starting
Number Date
2
3
1
2
2
2
Topics
05/02/2013 European transformation and French Revolution
12/02/2013 Transformation of the classical system, reforms of Selim III and Mahmud II
21/02/2013 Eastern question
26/02/2013 Economic overview: provisionism, mercantilism, liberalism
05/03/2013 Tanzimat era and the opposition: Young Ottomans
26/03/2013 Reign of Abdülhamid II, 1876-1909 and the Opposition: The Young Turks
02/04/2013 Young Turk ideology and Revolution of 1908, Second Constitutional Period, CUP's supervisory government:
1908-1913
16/04/2013 The rise of Turkish nationalism and national economy under CUP rule
18/04/2013 World War I and the national resistance movement
30/04/2013 Turkey in 1920s: Consolidation of RPP rule
2
1
2
2
Assessment Methods
Type
Description
Final Grade, %
Midterm Test
Final Exam
Quiz
Project
Other
Mid-Term Exam Identification and essay questions
Final exam Identification and essay questions
Pop quizzes
Presentation and report
Participation
35
35
15
9
6
100
Total
Workload Breakdown
Type
Description
Hours
Lecture
Exam
Project
Lectures and readings Attending and preparing for the lectures Reading the required texts
Preparing for mid-term and final exam
Preparing for the presentation
100
50
30
180
Total
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. Week 2-3 (Mon-Wed Sept. 24-26 - Oct. 1 / Tue-Thu Sept. 25-27-Oct. 2) 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 of Difference: The Ottomans in Comparative Perspective. Cambridge:
Cambridge UP, 206-225. Macfie, A.L (1996). ?The Eastern Question? and ?The Great Powers and the Ottoman Empire.? The
Eastern Question. London: Longman, pp. 1-4, 74-76. Zürcher, E. J. (2004). ?The Early Years 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 Industrial Revolutions.? Peterson?s AP European History.
USA: Thomson Peterson?s, 167-175. Genç, M. (2002). ?Osmanlı İktisadi Dünya 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. Çiçek, N. (2010). ?Introduction.? The Young Ottomans. London: I.B. Tauris,
42-50. 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 of
Abdulhamid II? In Turkey: A Modern History. New York: I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd., pp. 85-90. Akşin, S. (2007). ?Structural
Characteristics of the CUP and the 31 March Incident? and ?The CUP Supervisory Government ? from the 31 March Incident to
1913.? 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 Sanat
Yayincilik, 91-101. Ahmad, F. (2008). ?Vanguard of a Nascent Bourgeoisie: The Social and Economic Policy of the Young
Turks, 1908-1918.? In From Empire to Republic: Essays on the Late Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey, vol.1, edited by
Feroz Ahmad. Istanbul: Istanbul Bilgi University Press, 23-61. Palmowski, J. (2008). "World War I" A Dictionary of Contemporary
World History. Jan Palmowski. Oxford University Press, 2008. Oxford Reference Online. Oxford University
Press.http://0www.oxfordreference.com.libunix.ku.edu.tr/views/ENTRY.html?subview=Main&entry=t46.e2516. Koc University, 27
August 2011. Ahmad, F. (2010). ?1914-1918 Savaşı Sırasında Jön Türk Politikasının İkilemleri. ? In Tarık Zafer Tunaya Anısına
Yadigar-ı Meşrutiyet, edited by M.Ö. Alkan. Istanbul: Istanbul Bilgi UP, 37-53. Kayalı, H. (2008). ?The Struggle for
Independence.? In Cambridge History of Turkey Vol. 4, edited by Resat Kasaba. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 112146. 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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