Donald Quataert
Biographic Data
| ID | 958568 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Donald Quataert |
| GIVEN NAMES | Donald |
| FAMILY NAME | Quataert |
| SIGNATURE | QUATAERT D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Binghamton University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 116 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
History from Below and the Writing of Ottoman History
This short contribution is a slightly edited version of the Dean’s Distinguished Lecture that Donald Quataert gave at Binghamton University on 5 November 2010—his last public lecture before his death in February 2011. Quataert was a tireless advocate of the method of “history from below,” which reflects the perspectives of ordinary working men and women in the past. He saw it as a necessary corrective to much of the state-centered historiography …
Coal Mines, the Palace, and Struggles Over Power, Capital, and Justice in the Late Ottoman Empire
This article is based on a case file examining the allegedly corrupt behavior of the district governor ( kaymakam ) of Ereğli, located in the Black Sea coal district of the Ottoman Empire, before the 1908 Young Turk Revolution. It paints a vivid picture of the cronyism, greed, and demands for justice that abound in the testimonies and petitions of a diverse array of local actors that were included in the case file. These documents provide the opp…
Migrant Workers in the Middle East
Transnational labor migration is one of the most visible features of our globalizing world. The International Organization for Migration estimates that there are 214 million migrant workers crossing national borders in the world today. Migration both in and to the Middle East constitutes an important part of this movement of laborers and has deep roots. In the mid-fifteenth century, workers across a broad spectrum of occupations, including steved…
East meets West
Journal Article East meets West: Banking, Commerce and Investment in the Ottoman Empire, ed. Philip L. Cottrell, Monica Pohle and Iain L. Fraser Get access East meets West: Banking, Commerce and Investment in the Ottoman Empire, ed. Philip L. Cottrell, Monica Pohle and Iain L. Fraser (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008, pp. xx + 214. £55). Donald Quataert Donald Quataert Binghamton University, NY Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Go…
Workers, Peasants and Economic Change in the Ottoman Empire, 1730-1914
This collection of essays contains the work of one of the premier Ottoman economic and social historians, Donald Quataert, covering topics relating to labour and manufacturing in the nineteenth century
Richard Antoun, 1932-2009
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Epilogue
The contributions to this volume demonstrate the important strides recently taken by the field of labor history in both Ottoman and post-Ottoman studies. In common with history writing generally, the number of Middle East labor history practitioners researching on an ever wider scope of topics increased significantly. Topics merely touched upon by researchers back in the 1970s and 1980s, including this writer, have emerged as subjects of study in…
Pensée 2
As explained by one of its founders, subaltern studies seeks to counteract histories written by elites, about elites, and for elites that ignore the majority of society. Through this examination, the urban poor, workers, and peasants of India, the original focus of attention, are agents in the formation of their subaltern consciousness: the “agency of change is located in the insurgent or the ‘subaltern.’”
The Massacres of Ottoman Armenians and the Writing of Ottoman History
Little of the writing about the massacres of Armenians, which occurred in 1915, not long before the Ottoman Empire's demise, has utilized Ottoman-language materials. Yet, Ottomanists have a responsibility to research these events and their origins to promote a more complete understanding of them. Providing explanations of the violence that states organize against their own subjects and citizens should be the task of historians able to read the do…
The Ottoman Empire, 1700–1922
The Ottoman Empire was one of the most important non-Western states to survive from medieval to modern times, and played a vital role in European and global history. It continues to affect the peoples of the Middle East, the Balkans and central and western Europe to the present day. This new survey examines the major trends during the latter years of the empire; it pays attention to gender issues and to hotly-debated topics such as the treatment …
Ottoman History Writing and Changing Attitudes Towards the Notion of “Decline”
The arguments presented below support, I hope, the following set of assertions. First, historical writing on the question of the “decline” of the Ottoman Empire presently is undergoing a sweeping, if incomplete, revision that vitally affects our perceptions not only of this now‐defunct imperial system but also of the contemporary Middle East. Secondly, the debate over Ottoman decline only now is escaping from its thorough enmeshment in European n…
Historical And Postmodern Cities Of The Middle East
Recent Writings in Late Ottoman History
The books under review here variously demonstrate the progress made in the recent historical writing of the late Ottoman period (c. 1750–1922). They also reflect the problems that persist in this important sub-discipline of the historian's craft. In the West, the writing of Ottoman history began as an offshoot of European history, often the purview of historians interested in the “Eastern Question.” A notable example is William Langer's Diplomacy…
Labor History and the Ottoman Empire, c. 1700–1922
This article surveys the evolution of labor history writing as an increasingly vibrant subfield of Ottoman history. It addresses labor historians outside of Ottoman history and for their benefit traces why and how workers almost completely were left out of Ottoman historical writing until c. 1970. Thereafter, Ottoman historians have more frequently discussed workers and their histories. At first focusing on organized workers and their relations w…
A Coal Miner's Life during the Late Ottoman Empire
This is a translation of a truly extraordinary and rare historical document—a transcribed narrative of a coal miner who began to work in the coal fields of the Anatolian Black Sea coast during the late 19th century. To date, no comparable tale of an Ottoman worker's life has come to light. This annotated document offers a rich and vivid look into the life of underground miners of the late Ottoman Empire. It vibrantly illustrates the connections b…
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REVEALING THE HOLY LAND: THE PHOTOGRAPHIC EXPLORATION OF PALESTINE. By Kathleen Stewart Howe. Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, 1997. 144pp. $US 60 (hb), $US 29.95 (pb). THE EMERGENCE OF THE ‘ABBASID AUTOCRACY: THE ‘ABBASID ARMY, KHURASAN AND ADHARBAYJAN. By Fukuzo Amabe, Kyoto University Press, 1995 xi + 322pp. THE BUKHARANS: A DYNASTIC, DIPLOMATIC AND COMMERCIAL HISTORY, 1550–1702. By Audrey Burton. Richmond, Surrey, UK; Curzon Press, 1997; xxxvii …
An Economic and Social History of the Ottoman Empire, 1300-1914.
Clothing Laws, State, and Society in the Ottoman Empire, 1720–1829
In 1826, Sultan Mahmud II orchestrated the slaughter of 6,000–7,000 janissaries and, in order to incinerate any janissary remnants that had taken refuge there, burned the Belgrade Forest outside Istanbul. During his reign (1808–39), the sultan attacked many of the other bases of the ancien régime, such as the timar system, the lifetime tax farms, and the political autonomy of provincial notables. He also centralized the pious foundations, brought…
Ties That Bind
An Economic and Social History of the Ottoman Empire, 1300-1914
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MIDDLE EAST STUDIES IN DENMARK. Edited by LARS ERSLEV ANDERSEN. Odense, Odense University Press, 1994. 215pp. DKK 200. APPROACHES TO THE HISTORY OF THE MIDDLE EAST: INTERVIEWS WITH LEADING MIDDLE EAST HISTORIANS. By NANCY ELIZABETH GALLAGHER. Reading, Garnet Publishing, 1994. viii, 197pp. A HISTORY OF THE MODERN MIDDLE EAST. By WILLIAM L. CLEVELAND. Boulder and Oxford, Westview Press, 1994. 503pp. Tables, maps, photographs, glossary, select bibli…
Manufacturing in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey, 1500-1950
Ottoman Manufacturing in the Age of the Industrial Revolution
Introduction Part I. Manufacturing for the Domestic Market: 1. Raw cotton, dyestuffs and yarn production 2. Trends in cloth production in the Ottoman lands from Salonica to Aleppo 3. Patterns of cloth production in the Ottoman lands from Salonica to Aleppo Part II. Manufacturing for the International Market: 4. Silk cloth and raw silk production 5. Carpetmaking Conclusion
An economic and social history of the Ottoman Empire, 1300-1914
The Ottoman Empire was one of the major empires of modern times, covering an area extending from the borderlands of Hungary to the North African coastal areas. This book provides a richly detailed account of its social and economic history, from its origins around 1300 to the eve of its destruction during World War I. In the four chronological sections, each by a leading authority, developments in population, trade, transport, manufacturing, land…
French Jews, Turkish Jews
Clothing Laws, State, and Society in the Ottoman Empire, 1720–1829
In 1826, Sultan Mahmud II orchestrated the slaughter of 6,000–7,000 janissaries and, in order to incinerate any janissary remnants that had taken refuge there, burned the Belgrade Forest outside Istanbul. During his reign (1808–39), the sultan attacked many of the other bases of the ancien régime, such as the timar system, the lifetime tax farms, and the political autonomy of provincial notables. He also centralized the pious foundations, brought…
French Jews, Turkish Jews
Dilemma of Development
During the final century of its existence, the Ottoman state, seeking to adapt and survive in a European-dominated world, launched a series of far-ranging reform programs touching nearly every aspect of Ottoman life. The financial basis of these programs rested on a predominantly agricultural economy characterized by Ottoman and foreign observers alike as backward and impoverished, yet possessing vast potential.Generally, these observers also agr…
Ottoman History Writing and Changing Attitudes Towards the Notion of “Decline”
The arguments presented below support, I hope, the following set of assertions. First, historical writing on the question of the “decline” of the Ottoman Empire presently is undergoing a sweeping, if incomplete, revision that vitally affects our perceptions not only of this now‐defunct imperial system but also of the contemporary Middle East. Secondly, the debate over Ottoman decline only now is escaping from its thorough enmeshment in European n…
The Economic Climate of the `Young Turk Revolution' in 1908
Limited Revolution
Developmental investment abroad was an integral part of the industrialized nations' foreign policies in the decades before World War I. A notable case was the German Empire's investment in the Anatolian Railway. Inspired by the astounding success of North American railroad development in settling vast untilled areas and creating great quantities of cheap food grains, the Germans built a railroad into the thinly populated central plain of Turkey. …
Labor History and the Ottoman Empire, c. 1700–1922
This article surveys the evolution of labor history writing as an increasingly vibrant subfield of Ottoman history. It addresses labor historians outside of Ottoman history and for their benefit traces why and how workers almost completely were left out of Ottoman historical writing until c. 1970. Thereafter, Ottoman historians have more frequently discussed workers and their histories. At first focusing on organized workers and their relations w…
Machine Breaking and the Changing Carpet Industry of Western Anatolia, 1860-1908
Journal Article Machine Breaking and the Changing Carpet Industry of Western Anatolia, 1860–1908 Get access Donald Quataert Donald Quataert University of Houston, University Park Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 19, Issue 3, Spring 1986, Pages 473–489, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/19.3.473 Published: 01 March 1986
The Massacres of Ottoman Armenians and the Writing of Ottoman History
Little of the writing about the massacres of Armenians, which occurred in 1915, not long before the Ottoman Empire's demise, has utilized Ottoman-language materials. Yet, Ottomanists have a responsibility to research these events and their origins to promote a more complete understanding of them. Providing explanations of the violence that states organize against their own subjects and citizens should be the task of historians able to read the do…
Coal Mines, the Palace, and Struggles Over Power, Capital, and Justice in the Late Ottoman Empire
This article is based on a case file examining the allegedly corrupt behavior of the district governor ( kaymakam ) of Ereğli, located in the Black Sea coal district of the Ottoman Empire, before the 1908 Young Turk Revolution. It paints a vivid picture of the cronyism, greed, and demands for justice that abound in the testimonies and petitions of a diverse array of local actors that were included in the case file. These documents provide the opp…
Epilogue
The contributions to this volume demonstrate the important strides recently taken by the field of labor history in both Ottoman and post-Ottoman studies. In common with history writing generally, the number of Middle East labor history practitioners researching on an ever wider scope of topics increased significantly. Topics merely touched upon by researchers back in the 1970s and 1980s, including this writer, have emerged as subjects of study in…
Recent Writings in Late Ottoman History
The books under review here variously demonstrate the progress made in the recent historical writing of the late Ottoman period (c. 1750–1922). They also reflect the problems that persist in this important sub-discipline of the historian's craft. In the West, the writing of Ottoman history began as an offshoot of European history, often the purview of historians interested in the “Eastern Question.” A notable example is William Langer's Diplomacy…
The 1908 Young Turk Revolution
In many areas of Middle East studies, revolutions—from the 8th century Abbasid to the 20th century Egyptian cases—have been treated as multidimensional phenomena, filled with actors impelled by varying, often conflicting interests and motives. Scholarship has come to perceive these revolutions as products of commingled political, intellectual, social and economic forces, and each event as the unique creation of a particular blend of the various e…
Migrant Workers in the Middle East
Transnational labor migration is one of the most visible features of our globalizing world. The International Organization for Migration estimates that there are 214 million migrant workers crossing national borders in the world today. Migration both in and to the Middle East constitutes an important part of this movement of laborers and has deep roots. In the mid-fifteenth century, workers across a broad spectrum of occupations, including steved…
Pensée 2
As explained by one of its founders, subaltern studies seeks to counteract histories written by elites, about elites, and for elites that ignore the majority of society. Through this examination, the urban poor, workers, and peasants of India, the original focus of attention, are agents in the formation of their subaltern consciousness: the “agency of change is located in the insurgent or the ‘subaltern.’”
A Coal Miner's Life during the Late Ottoman Empire
This is a translation of a truly extraordinary and rare historical document—a transcribed narrative of a coal miner who began to work in the coal fields of the Anatolian Black Sea coast during the late 19th century. To date, no comparable tale of an Ottoman worker's life has come to light. This annotated document offers a rich and vivid look into the life of underground miners of the late Ottoman Empire. It vibrantly illustrates the connections b…
Dilemma of Development
During the final century of its existence, the Ottoman state, seeking to adapt and survive in a European-dominated world, launched a series of far-ranging reform programs touching nearly every aspect of Ottoman life. The financial basis of these programs rested on a predominantly agricultural economy characterized by Ottoman and foreign observers alike as backward and impoverished, yet possessing vast potential.Generally, these observers also agr…
Limited Revolution
Developmental investment abroad was an integral part of the industrialized nations' foreign policies in the decades before World War I. A notable case was the German Empire's investment in the Anatolian Railway. Inspired by the astounding success of North American railroad development in settling vast untilled areas and creating great quantities of cheap food grains, the Germans built a railroad into the thinly populated central plain of Turkey. …
The Zentrales Staatsarchiv of the German Democratic Republic as a Source for Late Ottoman and Middle East History
The archives of the imperial German government, 1871–1918, are an important but somewhat neglected source for late Ottoman and Middle East history. These collections fell into Soviet, American, French, and British hands after World War II and are presently divided between the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) and the German Federal Republic (West Germany)
The 1908 Young Turk Revolution
In many areas of Middle East studies, revolutions—from the 8th century Abbasid to the 20th century Egyptian cases—have been treated as multidimensional phenomena, filled with actors impelled by varying, often conflicting interests and motives. Scholarship has come to perceive these revolutions as products of commingled political, intellectual, social and economic forces, and each event as the unique creation of a particular blend of the various e…
The Economic Climate of the `Young Turk Revolution' in 1908
Jacob M. Landau. Pan-Turkism in Turkey
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Planning, Managing and Implementing Technological Development Projects
Planning, Managing and Implementing Technological Development Projects: The Case of the Eregli Iron and Steel Works, by Joseph S. Szyliowicz. Distributed by the Intercollegiate Case Clearing House, Soldiers Field, Boston, Mass. 02163. 1982. - Volume 18 Issue 2
Machine Breaking and the Changing Carpet Industry of Western Anatolia, 1860-1908
Journal Article Machine Breaking and the Changing Carpet Industry of Western Anatolia, 1860–1908 Get access Donald Quataert Donald Quataert University of Houston, University Park Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 19, Issue 3, Spring 1986, Pages 473–489, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/19.3.473 Published: 01 March 1986
Economic Life in Ottoman Jerusalem
List of illustrations Note on transcription Introduction 1. Butchers and meat consumption 2. Soap production and olive oil 3. Flour and bread 4. Conclusion Note on abbreviations Note on weights, measures and monetary values Appendices Notes Bibliography Indexes
Robert Olson, The Emergence of Kurdish Nationalism and the Sheikh Said Rebellion, 1880–1925 (Austin
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French Jews, Turkish Jews
An economic and social history of the Ottoman Empire, 1300-1914
The Ottoman Empire was one of the major empires of modern times, covering an area extending from the borderlands of Hungary to the North African coastal areas. This book provides a richly detailed account of its social and economic history, from its origins around 1300 to the eve of its destruction during World War I. In the four chronological sections, each by a leading authority, developments in population, trade, transport, manufacturing, land…
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MIDDLE EAST STUDIES IN DENMARK. Edited by LARS ERSLEV ANDERSEN. Odense, Odense University Press, 1994. 215pp. DKK 200. APPROACHES TO THE HISTORY OF THE MIDDLE EAST: INTERVIEWS WITH LEADING MIDDLE EAST HISTORIANS. By NANCY ELIZABETH GALLAGHER. Reading, Garnet Publishing, 1994. viii, 197pp. A HISTORY OF THE MODERN MIDDLE EAST. By WILLIAM L. CLEVELAND. Boulder and Oxford, Westview Press, 1994. 503pp. Tables, maps, photographs, glossary, select bibli…
Manufacturing in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey, 1500-1950
Ottoman Manufacturing in the Age of the Industrial Revolution
Introduction Part I. Manufacturing for the Domestic Market: 1. Raw cotton, dyestuffs and yarn production 2. Trends in cloth production in the Ottoman lands from Salonica to Aleppo 3. Patterns of cloth production in the Ottoman lands from Salonica to Aleppo Part II. Manufacturing for the International Market: 4. Silk cloth and raw silk production 5. Carpetmaking Conclusion
Ties That Bind
An Economic and Social History of the Ottoman Empire, 1300-1914
An Economic and Social History of the Ottoman Empire, 1300-1914.
Clothing Laws, State, and Society in the Ottoman Empire, 1720–1829
In 1826, Sultan Mahmud II orchestrated the slaughter of 6,000–7,000 janissaries and, in order to incinerate any janissary remnants that had taken refuge there, burned the Belgrade Forest outside Istanbul. During his reign (1808–39), the sultan attacked many of the other bases of the ancien régime, such as the timar system, the lifetime tax farms, and the political autonomy of provincial notables. He also centralized the pious foundations, brought…
A
REVEALING THE HOLY LAND: THE PHOTOGRAPHIC EXPLORATION OF PALESTINE. By Kathleen Stewart Howe. Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, 1997. 144pp. $US 60 (hb), $US 29.95 (pb). THE EMERGENCE OF THE ‘ABBASID AUTOCRACY: THE ‘ABBASID ARMY, KHURASAN AND ADHARBAYJAN. By Fukuzo Amabe, Kyoto University Press, 1995 xi + 322pp. THE BUKHARANS: A DYNASTIC, DIPLOMATIC AND COMMERCIAL HISTORY, 1550–1702. By Audrey Burton. Richmond, Surrey, UK; Curzon Press, 1997; xxxvii …
Labor History and the Ottoman Empire, c. 1700–1922
This article surveys the evolution of labor history writing as an increasingly vibrant subfield of Ottoman history. It addresses labor historians outside of Ottoman history and for their benefit traces why and how workers almost completely were left out of Ottoman historical writing until c. 1970. Thereafter, Ottoman historians have more frequently discussed workers and their histories. At first focusing on organized workers and their relations w…
A Coal Miner's Life during the Late Ottoman Empire
This is a translation of a truly extraordinary and rare historical document—a transcribed narrative of a coal miner who began to work in the coal fields of the Anatolian Black Sea coast during the late 19th century. To date, no comparable tale of an Ottoman worker's life has come to light. This annotated document offers a rich and vivid look into the life of underground miners of the late Ottoman Empire. It vibrantly illustrates the connections b…
Ottoman History Writing and Changing Attitudes Towards the Notion of “Decline”
The arguments presented below support, I hope, the following set of assertions. First, historical writing on the question of the “decline” of the Ottoman Empire presently is undergoing a sweeping, if incomplete, revision that vitally affects our perceptions not only of this now‐defunct imperial system but also of the contemporary Middle East. Secondly, the debate over Ottoman decline only now is escaping from its thorough enmeshment in European n…
Historical And Postmodern Cities Of The Middle East
Recent Writings in Late Ottoman History
The books under review here variously demonstrate the progress made in the recent historical writing of the late Ottoman period (c. 1750–1922). They also reflect the problems that persist in this important sub-discipline of the historian's craft. In the West, the writing of Ottoman history began as an offshoot of European history, often the purview of historians interested in the “Eastern Question.” A notable example is William Langer's Diplomacy…
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