Renee Worringer
Biographic Data
| ID | 251042 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Renee Worringer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Renee |
| FAMILY NAME | Worringer |
| SIGNATURE | WORRINGER R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Guelph |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Meiji Japan, Ottoman Egypt, and the British Occupation
The independent Japanese nation-state of the late 19th century, with its modern institutions and its enlightened officials, became a powerful role model for other non-Western societies who struggled to acquire the trappings of modernity they often associated with the West – parliamentary constitutionalism, universal compulsory education, and patriotic love of homeland, for example. Under British occupation since 1882, Egyptian nationalists in lat…
Teaching Ottoman History, Writing an Ottoman Textbook
This essay reflects on the author’s circuitous path into Ottoman history and how that trajectory shaped both her pedagogy and the writing of an undergraduate textbook. Drawing on decades of teaching across three continents, it examines the challenges students face in approaching Ottoman history—Eurocentrism, unfamiliar geography, and top-down narratives—and explains how recent historiographical shifts, thematic framing, and pedagogical experiment…
The Ottomans
Orphans and Destitute Children in the Late Ottoman Empire by Nazan Maksudyan
Shepherd’s Enemy or Aşina, Böri, Börte Činō, and Bozkurt
Wolves have been a constant in human consciousness, whether they are considered supernatural beings, nurturers and guides for humankind, or powerful or malevolent predators. Attitudes toward wolves in Western Christian societies have been overwhelmingly negative due to perceptions of wolves as preying upon souls and flocks. Pre-modern Turco-Mongolian views of wolves were generally positive, as she-wolves, ancestral deities, or guides for nomadic …
Japan's Progress Reified
The apparent success of Meiji Japan's rapid modernization project at the turn of the twentieth century did not go unnoticed by inhabitants of Ottoman lands concerned with their Empire's survival, including Ottoman statesmen and political activists determined to achieve the same results. Ottoman Arab journalists and intellectuals who were subtly objecting to their exclusion from political power within the Empire, however, produced a discourse on J…
Sick Man of Europe” or “Japan of the Near East”
The [Japanese] government, adorned with great intelligence and ideological firmness in progress, has implemented and promoted European [methods] of commerce and industry in its own country, and has turned the whole of Japan into a factory of progress, thanks to many [educational institutions]; it has attempted to secure and develop Japan's capacity for advancement by using means to serve the needs of the society such as benevolent institutions, r…
Sick Man of Europe” or “Japan of the Near East”
The [Japanese] government, adorned with great intelligence and ideological firmness in progress, has implemented and promoted European [methods] of commerce and industry in its own country, and has turned the whole of Japan into a factory of progress, thanks to many [educational institutions]; it has attempted to secure and develop Japan's capacity for advancement by using means to serve the needs of the society such as benevolent institutions, r…
Sick Man of Europe” or “Japan of the Near East”
The [Japanese] government, adorned with great intelligence and ideological firmness in progress, has implemented and promoted European [methods] of commerce and industry in its own country, and has turned the whole of Japan into a factory of progress, thanks to many [educational institutions]; it has attempted to secure and develop Japan's capacity for advancement by using means to serve the needs of the society such as benevolent institutions, r…
Japan's Progress Reified
The apparent success of Meiji Japan's rapid modernization project at the turn of the twentieth century did not go unnoticed by inhabitants of Ottoman lands concerned with their Empire's survival, including Ottoman statesmen and political activists determined to achieve the same results. Ottoman Arab journalists and intellectuals who were subtly objecting to their exclusion from political power within the Empire, however, produced a discourse on J…
Shepherd’s Enemy or Aşina, Böri, Börte Činō, and Bozkurt
Wolves have been a constant in human consciousness, whether they are considered supernatural beings, nurturers and guides for humankind, or powerful or malevolent predators. Attitudes toward wolves in Western Christian societies have been overwhelmingly negative due to perceptions of wolves as preying upon souls and flocks. Pre-modern Turco-Mongolian views of wolves were generally positive, as she-wolves, ancestral deities, or guides for nomadic …
Orphans and Destitute Children in the Late Ottoman Empire by Nazan Maksudyan
The Ottomans
Meiji Japan, Ottoman Egypt, and the British Occupation
The independent Japanese nation-state of the late 19th century, with its modern institutions and its enlightened officials, became a powerful role model for other non-Western societies who struggled to acquire the trappings of modernity they often associated with the West – parliamentary constitutionalism, universal compulsory education, and patriotic love of homeland, for example. Under British occupation since 1882, Egyptian nationalists in lat…
Teaching Ottoman History, Writing an Ottoman Textbook
This essay reflects on the author’s circuitous path into Ottoman history and how that trajectory shaped both her pedagogy and the writing of an undergraduate textbook. Drawing on decades of teaching across three continents, it examines the challenges students face in approaching Ottoman history—Eurocentrism, unfamiliar geography, and top-down narratives—and explains how recent historiographical shifts, thematic framing, and pedagogical experiment…
History (6 works) · Ancient history (5 works) · Islamic Studies and History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · History (3 works) · Modernity (3 works) · Ottoman empire (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works)