Ottoman Crossroads

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Connecting three continents for four centuries, the Ottoman Empire brought locations as far flung as Yemen, Tunisia and Bosnia into the same cultural, legal and economic space. This course explores the Empire's legacy in what has come to be known as the Middle East and beyond. After examining themes in Ottoman history starting in the 13th century through to World War I, we will discuss the Empire's legacy in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, revisiting our ideas about nation-states, constructions like the Middle East and the Arab World, and the boundaries between East and West.