Bruce Masters
Biographic Data
| ID | 982484 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bruce Masters |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bruce |
| FAMILY NAME | Masters |
| SIGNATURE | MASTERS B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wesleyan University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Order and Disorder of Communication: Pamphlets and Polemics in the Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Empire
Empire of Salons: Conquest and Community in Early Modern Ottoman Lands by Helen Pfeifer (review)
Reviewed by: Empire of Salons: Conquest and Community in Early Modern Ottoman Lands by Helen Pfeifer Bruce Masters Helen Pfeifer, Empire of Salons: Conquest and Community in Early Modern Ottoman Lands. Princeton, NJ & Oxford, Princeton University Press, 2022. pp. xi, 297. Hardback, 39.95.ISBN: 9780691224954. Ibrahim al-Khiyari set out from his native Medina in 1669 to travel to Istanbul and an eventual meeting with Sultan Mehmed IV in Bulgaria. H…
Faisal H. Husain. Rivers of the Sultan: The Tigris and Euphrates in the Ottoman Empire
A rbella B et -S hlimon . City of Black Gold: Oil, Ethnicity, and the Making of Modern Kirkuk
The history of Kirkuk in the twentieth century provides an antidote to the conventional wisdom held by Western political pundits that ethnic and religious conflicts in the former Ottoman Empire are “centuries old.” Located in northern Iraq on the plains below the mountains of Kurdistan, Kirkuk lies on a potential ethnic fault line separating Kurdish speakers to the north and east of the city and Arabic speakers to the south. To add to the city’s …
Shattered Dreams of Revolution: From Liberty to Violence in the Late Ottoman Empire By Bedross Der Matossian
The Young Turk Revolution of July 24, 1908 was potentially a momentous event that might have saved the empire if it had delivered on its promises. Led by a group of middle level army officers, the coup’s objective was to restore the Ottoman constitution of 1876. The plotters did not see themselves as true revolutionaries but rather as protectors of the constitutional monarchy that the Tanzimat reformers of the mid-nineteenth century had envisione…
The Arabs of the Ottoman Empire, 1516–1918: A Social and Cultural History
The Ottomans ruled much of the Arab World for four centuries. Bruce Masters's work surveys this period, emphasizing the cultural and social changes that occurred against the backdrop of the political realities that Arabs experienced as subjects of the Ottoman sultans. The persistence of Ottoman rule over a vast area for several centuries required that some Arabs collaborate in the imperial enterprise. Masters highlights the role of two social cla…
The Political Economy of Aleppo in an Age of Ottoman Reform
The return of Ottoman rule to Aleppo in 1840 corresponded with the inauguration of the reform era (1839-76). Although the central Ottoman state could not have foreseen the outcome, these political reforms undermined its economic sovereignty in two key areas. The Ottoman land reform law of 1858 and schemes to settle the Bedouin in northern Syria enabled Aleppo’s political elite to scramble for the steppe lands of the Euphrates valley and ultimatel…
Massacres, Resistance, Protectors: Muslim-Christian Relations in Eastern Anatolia during World War I
The Ottoman City between East and West. Aleppo, Izmir and Istanbul
Introduction: was there an Ottoman city? 1. Aleppo: the Ottoman Empire's caravan city Bruce Masters 2. Izmir: from village to colonial port city Daniel Goffman 3. Istanbul: from imperial to peripheralized capital Edhem Eldem Conclusion: contexts and characteristics Works consulted Index
The Ottoman City between East and West: Aleppo, Izmir, and Istanbul
The New Cambridge History of Islam
Volume 2 of The New Cambridge History of Islam is devoted to the history of the Western Islamic lands from the political fragmentation of the eleventh century to the beginnings of European colonialism towards the end of the eighteenth century. The volume embraces a vast area from al-Andalus and North Africa to Arabia and the lands of the Ottomans. In the first four sections, scholars – all leaders in their particular fields - chart the rise and f…
The Assyrian Experience: Sources for the Study of the 19th and 20th Centuries from the Holdings of the Harvard University Libraries, edited by Eden Naby and Michael E. Hopper. 176 pages, illustrations…
The Assyrian Experience: Sources for the Study of the 19th and 20th Centuries from the Holdings of the Harvard University Libraries, edited by Eden Naby and Michael E. Hopper. 176 pages, illustrations, bibliography. Cambridge, MA: Harvard College Library, 1999. $15.00 (Paper) - Volume 33 Issue 2
Ottoman Seapower and Levantine Diplomacy in the Age of Discovery
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
The View from the Province: Syrian Chronicles of the Eighteenth Century
L'Histoire n'etait pas consideree comme une activite intellectuelle digne d'interet par l'elite culturelle syrienne du 18e s. Neanmoins, un certain nombre de chroniques d'Alep et de Damas de cette periode ont survecu. Bien que ces ouvrages ne soient pas d'elegants exemplaires de la tradition historiographique islamique, leur importance tient au fait qu'ils ont ete rediges par des representants de groupes sociaux exterieurs aux elites intellectuel…
Jean-Pierre Thieck, Passion d'Orient (Paris: (Éditions Karthala, 1992). Pp. 240
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The Sultan's Entrepreneurs: The Avrupa Tüccaris and the Hayriye Tüccaris in Syria
By the first quarter of the 19th century, foreigners and Ottomans alike were keenly aware that the sovereignty of the house of Osman was rapidly eroding. Austrian and Russian armies threatened the empire from without; ethnic revolts and secession beset it from within. Its occasional allies Britain and France ate away at its autonomy through growing economic and political influence. The military threats were apparent, but the Porte was less alert …
Power and society in Aleppo in the 18th and 19th centuries
Masters Bruce. Power and society in Aleppo in the 18th and 19th centuries. In: Revue du monde musulman et de la Méditerranée, n°62, 1991. Alep et la Syrie du Nord, sous la direction de Viviane Fuglestad-Aumeunier . pp. 151-158
The Treaties of Erzurum (1823 and 1848) and the Changing Status of Iranians in the Ottoman Empire
Iranian merchants, artists, and scholars had an almost continuous presence in the Ottoman Empire from its very beginnings in the thirteenth century. After the Arab provinces were added to the empire in the sixteenth century, their numbers were further augmented by pilgrims on their way to the holy cities of the Hijaz and Iraq. As such, in terms of actual numbers, during any period of its history there were probably more Iranians resident in the O…
The 1850 Events In Aleppo: An Aftershock Of Syria's Incorporation Into The Capitalist World System
The events of Aleppo have caused amongst all classes of all nationalities a sensation such as I have never witnessed here before. The population of Aleppo is the wealthiest, best conducted community in Syria. That such a body of people in a time of profound peace, living under the protection of an organized government of two pashas and a garrison of regular troops of all arms should find themselves, without the slightest provocation on their part…
The Sultan's Servants: The Transformation of Ottoman Provincial Government, 1550-1650 . İ. Metin Kunt
Trading Diasporas and ‘Nations’: The Genesis of National Identities in Ottoman Aleppo
The Sultan's Entrepreneurs: The Avrupa Tüccaris and the Hayriye Tüccaris in Syria
By the first quarter of the 19th century, foreigners and Ottomans alike were keenly aware that the sovereignty of the house of Osman was rapidly eroding. Austrian and Russian armies threatened the empire from without; ethnic revolts and secession beset it from within. Its occasional allies Britain and France ate away at its autonomy through growing economic and political influence. The military threats were apparent, but the Porte was less alert …
The Treaties of Erzurum (1823 and 1848) and the Changing Status of Iranians in the Ottoman Empire
Iranian merchants, artists, and scholars had an almost continuous presence in the Ottoman Empire from its very beginnings in the thirteenth century. After the Arab provinces were added to the empire in the sixteenth century, their numbers were further augmented by pilgrims on their way to the holy cities of the Hijaz and Iraq. As such, in terms of actual numbers, during any period of its history there were probably more Iranians resident in the O…
The 1850 Events In Aleppo: An Aftershock Of Syria's Incorporation Into The Capitalist World System
The events of Aleppo have caused amongst all classes of all nationalities a sensation such as I have never witnessed here before. The population of Aleppo is the wealthiest, best conducted community in Syria. That such a body of people in a time of profound peace, living under the protection of an organized government of two pashas and a garrison of regular troops of all arms should find themselves, without the slightest provocation on their part…
The Ottoman City between East and West. Aleppo, Izmir and Istanbul
Introduction: was there an Ottoman city? 1. Aleppo: the Ottoman Empire's caravan city Bruce Masters 2. Izmir: from village to colonial port city Daniel Goffman 3. Istanbul: from imperial to peripheralized capital Edhem Eldem Conclusion: contexts and characteristics Works consulted Index
Trading Diasporas and ‘Nations’: The Genesis of National Identities in Ottoman Aleppo
Trading Diasporas and ‘Nations’: The Genesis of National Identities in Ottoman Aleppo
The Sultan's Servants: The Transformation of Ottoman Provincial Government, 1550-1650 . İ. Metin Kunt
The 1850 Events In Aleppo: An Aftershock Of Syria's Incorporation Into The Capitalist World System
The events of Aleppo have caused amongst all classes of all nationalities a sensation such as I have never witnessed here before. The population of Aleppo is the wealthiest, best conducted community in Syria. That such a body of people in a time of profound peace, living under the protection of an organized government of two pashas and a garrison of regular troops of all arms should find themselves, without the slightest provocation on their part…
Power and society in Aleppo in the 18th and 19th centuries
Masters Bruce. Power and society in Aleppo in the 18th and 19th centuries. In: Revue du monde musulman et de la Méditerranée, n°62, 1991. Alep et la Syrie du Nord, sous la direction de Viviane Fuglestad-Aumeunier . pp. 151-158
The Treaties of Erzurum (1823 and 1848) and the Changing Status of Iranians in the Ottoman Empire
Iranian merchants, artists, and scholars had an almost continuous presence in the Ottoman Empire from its very beginnings in the thirteenth century. After the Arab provinces were added to the empire in the sixteenth century, their numbers were further augmented by pilgrims on their way to the holy cities of the Hijaz and Iraq. As such, in terms of actual numbers, during any period of its history there were probably more Iranians resident in the O…
The Sultan's Entrepreneurs: The Avrupa Tüccaris and the Hayriye Tüccaris in Syria
By the first quarter of the 19th century, foreigners and Ottomans alike were keenly aware that the sovereignty of the house of Osman was rapidly eroding. Austrian and Russian armies threatened the empire from without; ethnic revolts and secession beset it from within. Its occasional allies Britain and France ate away at its autonomy through growing economic and political influence. The military threats were apparent, but the Porte was less alert …
Jean-Pierre Thieck, Passion d'Orient (Paris: (Éditions Karthala, 1992). Pp. 240
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The View from the Province: Syrian Chronicles of the Eighteenth Century
L'Histoire n'etait pas consideree comme une activite intellectuelle digne d'interet par l'elite culturelle syrienne du 18e s. Neanmoins, un certain nombre de chroniques d'Alep et de Damas de cette periode ont survecu. Bien que ces ouvrages ne soient pas d'elegants exemplaires de la tradition historiographique islamique, leur importance tient au fait qu'ils ont ete rediges par des representants de groupes sociaux exterieurs aux elites intellectuel…
Ottoman Seapower and Levantine Diplomacy in the Age of Discovery
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
The Assyrian Experience: Sources for the Study of the 19th and 20th Centuries from the Holdings of the Harvard University Libraries, edited by Eden Naby and Michael E. Hopper. 176 pages, illustrations…
The Assyrian Experience: Sources for the Study of the 19th and 20th Centuries from the Holdings of the Harvard University Libraries, edited by Eden Naby and Michael E. Hopper. 176 pages, illustrations, bibliography. Cambridge, MA: Harvard College Library, 1999. $15.00 (Paper) - Volume 33 Issue 2
The New Cambridge History of Islam
Volume 2 of The New Cambridge History of Islam is devoted to the history of the Western Islamic lands from the political fragmentation of the eleventh century to the beginnings of European colonialism towards the end of the eighteenth century. The volume embraces a vast area from al-Andalus and North Africa to Arabia and the lands of the Ottomans. In the first four sections, scholars – all leaders in their particular fields - chart the rise and f…
The Ottoman City between East and West. Aleppo, Izmir and Istanbul
Introduction: was there an Ottoman city? 1. Aleppo: the Ottoman Empire's caravan city Bruce Masters 2. Izmir: from village to colonial port city Daniel Goffman 3. Istanbul: from imperial to peripheralized capital Edhem Eldem Conclusion: contexts and characteristics Works consulted Index
The Ottoman City between East and West: Aleppo, Izmir, and Istanbul
Massacres, Resistance, Protectors: Muslim-Christian Relations in Eastern Anatolia during World War I
The Political Economy of Aleppo in an Age of Ottoman Reform
The return of Ottoman rule to Aleppo in 1840 corresponded with the inauguration of the reform era (1839-76). Although the central Ottoman state could not have foreseen the outcome, these political reforms undermined its economic sovereignty in two key areas. The Ottoman land reform law of 1858 and schemes to settle the Bedouin in northern Syria enabled Aleppo’s political elite to scramble for the steppe lands of the Euphrates valley and ultimatel…
The Arabs of the Ottoman Empire, 1516–1918: A Social and Cultural History
The Ottomans ruled much of the Arab World for four centuries. Bruce Masters's work surveys this period, emphasizing the cultural and social changes that occurred against the backdrop of the political realities that Arabs experienced as subjects of the Ottoman sultans. The persistence of Ottoman rule over a vast area for several centuries required that some Arabs collaborate in the imperial enterprise. Masters highlights the role of two social cla…
Shattered Dreams of Revolution: From Liberty to Violence in the Late Ottoman Empire By Bedross Der Matossian
The Young Turk Revolution of July 24, 1908 was potentially a momentous event that might have saved the empire if it had delivered on its promises. Led by a group of middle level army officers, the coup’s objective was to restore the Ottoman constitution of 1876. The plotters did not see themselves as true revolutionaries but rather as protectors of the constitutional monarchy that the Tanzimat reformers of the mid-nineteenth century had envisione…
A rbella B et -S hlimon . City of Black Gold: Oil, Ethnicity, and the Making of Modern Kirkuk
The history of Kirkuk in the twentieth century provides an antidote to the conventional wisdom held by Western political pundits that ethnic and religious conflicts in the former Ottoman Empire are “centuries old.” Located in northern Iraq on the plains below the mountains of Kurdistan, Kirkuk lies on a potential ethnic fault line separating Kurdish speakers to the north and east of the city and Arabic speakers to the south. To add to the city’s …
Empire of Salons: Conquest and Community in Early Modern Ottoman Lands by Helen Pfeifer (review)
Reviewed by: Empire of Salons: Conquest and Community in Early Modern Ottoman Lands by Helen Pfeifer Bruce Masters Helen Pfeifer, Empire of Salons: Conquest and Community in Early Modern Ottoman Lands. Princeton, NJ & Oxford, Princeton University Press, 2022. pp. xi, 297. Hardback, 39.95.ISBN: 9780691224954. Ibrahim al-Khiyari set out from his native Medina in 1669 to travel to Istanbul and an eventual meeting with Sultan Mehmed IV in Bulgaria. H…
Faisal H. Husain. Rivers of the Sultan: The Tigris and Euphrates in the Ottoman Empire
The Order and Disorder of Communication: Pamphlets and Polemics in the Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Empire
History (20 works) · Ancient history (15 works) · Islamic Studies and History (15 works) · Political science (15 works) · History (11 works) · Law (11 works) · Politics (9 works) · Archaeology (8 works) · Ottoman empire (8 works) · Geography (7 works)