Durant le long xixe siècle, face à un Occident de plus en plus puissant et arrogant, l’Empire ottoman s’est modernisé dans le but avoué de gérer une situation de plus en plus précaire. L’histoire de cette modernité, fortement empreinte d’occidentalisation, doit s’affranchir de bien des influences politiques et idéologiques qui l’ont grevée jusqu’ici : orientalisme eurocentrique, nationalisme kémaliste, ottomanisme islamisant... L’étude d’une grande variété de sources – la plupart encore in...

During the long nineteenth century, faced with an increasingly powerful and arrogant West, the Ottoman Empire modernised itself with the objective of dealing with an increasingly precarious situation. The history of this modernity, strongly marked by Westernisation, must be freed from many of the political and ideological influences that have burdened it so far, including Euro-centric orientalism, Kemalist nationalism, Islamising Ottomanism. The study of a wide variety of sources – most of...

Des jardins d’Adonis aux tiroirs des apothicaires et aux boutiques des commerçants, les herbes, drogues et épices ont toujours nourri les rêves et entretenu les comptes. Elles furent l’objet d’une curiosité particulière puis d’un engouement et d’un commerce aussi actif que lucratif ; la cause aussi de grandes rivalités entre marchands. Ainsi les retrouvons-nous dans les livres de commerçants juifs, dans les souks du Caire, dans les entrepôts de Smyrne, dans les cales des clippers américain...

Mimar, şehirci, Bizans ve Osmanlı tarihçisi, jeopolitik uzmanı, çok yönlü araştırmacı ve düşünür Stefanos Yerasimos 29 Ocak 1942’de İstanbul’da doğdu. İlkokulu Zapyon Rum Kız Lisesi’nde, ortaokulu Zoğrafyon Rum Erkek Lisesi’nde okuduktan sonra, Güzel Sanatlar Akademisi’nde mimarlık öğrenimini tamamladı ve 1966’da Paris Universitesi Institut d’Urbanisme’de şehircilik okudu. 1972-2005 arası Paris VIII Üniversitesi’nde, şehircilik ve jeopolitik bölümünde asistan, doçent ve ardından profesör o...

This book explores an event described by the Times as 'one of the greatest and most sensational political conspiracies of modern times'. On 21 July 1905, just after the Friday Prayer at the Yıldız Hamidiye Mosque in Istanbul, a car bomb exploded and left 26 dead with another 58 wounded. Sultan Abdülhamid II, the target of the attack, remained unscathed. The Ottoman police soon discovered that Armenian revolutionaries were behind the plot and several people were arrested and convic...