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Democracy in the Mediterranean:
Ottoman and Arab perspectives
Theme 2014: riots, rebellions, representation and legitimacy
Approach for TT: a geographical survey
This reading group meets weekly in the New Powell Room, Somerville College, 11.0012.30. It is run in connection with the Re-imagining Democracy project, for which see
http://re-imaginingdemocracy.com . All interested parties are welcome to attend. Please let
Joanna.innes@some.ox.ac.uk know if you would like to come: the reading list will acquire
more specificity and may change as the term progresses. The expectation is that all those
attending should read at least one item from the assigned reading each week.
1. Topography of revolt
Emrence, Cem. Remapping the Ottoman Middle East : Modernity, Imperial Bureaucracy,
and the Islamic State. London: IBTauris, 2012. Intro, if time allows chs 1-4
Aytekın, E. Attıla. ‘Peasant Protest in the Late Ottoman Empire: Moral Economy, Revolt,
and the Tanzimat Reforms’. International Review of Social History 57, no. 02 (2012):
191–227. doi:10.1017/S0020859012000193.
2. North Africa
Clancy-Smith, Julia Ann. Rebel and Saint : Muslim Notables, Populist Protest, Colonial
Encounters (Algeria and Tunisia, 1800-1904). Berkeley: University of California Press,
1994, chapter 3
3. Greece
Petropoulos, John Anthony. Politics and Statecraft in the Kingdom of Greece 1833-1843.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1968, ch. 1
Andriakaina, Eleni. ‘The Promise of the 1821 Revolution and the Suffering Body. Some
Thoughts on Modernisation and Anti-Intellectualism’. Synthesis 5 (2013).
http://synthesis.enl.uoa.gr/current-issue/hellenism-unbound/eleni-andriakaina-_.html
4. Greek Anatolia
Evthymios Papataxiarchis, ‘Reconfiguring the Ottoman political imagination: petitioning and
print culture in the early Tanzimat’ in Antonis Anastasopoulos ed. Political Initiatives
‘From the Bottom Up’ in the Ottoman Empire. Halcyon Days in Crete VIΙ. A Symposium
Held in Rethymno, 9-11 January 2009, Rethymno: Crete, 2012 [on Kydonies, largely
Greek town on Aegean coast]
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5. Ionian islands
Calligas, E. ‘The `Rizospastai’ (Radical-Unionists): Politics and Nationalism in the British
Protectorate of the Ionian Islands, 1815-1964’. LSE, 1994.
6. Balkans
Hitchin, Keith. The Rumanians 1774-1866 114-72, 231-72
Djordjević, Dimitrije. The Balkan Revolutionary Tradition. New York: Columbia University Press,
1981.
7. Middle East/humanitarian intervention
Makdisi, Ussama Samir. The Culture of Sectarianism : Community, History, and Violence in
Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Lebanon. Berkeley, Calif: University of California Press,
2000.
Rodogno, Davide. Against Massacre: Humanitarian Interventions in the Ottoman Empire,
1815-1914. Princeton University Press, 2011.
8 An Ottoman perspective
Memoir of Midhat Pasha