Tag: life narratives
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Fighting under the same banner: Memories from the Ottoman theater of the Great War – Authors: Richard Wittmann & Yaşar Tolga Cora
Fighting under the same banner: Memories from the Ottoman theater of the Great War Authors: Richard Wittmann & Yaşar Tolga Cora 26 March 2021 What did it mean to individuals of different ethnic and religious backgrounds to participate in World War I under the Ottoman crescent and star banner? Focusing on a wide array of…
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A visual life narrative of 1830s Ottoman Izmir/Smyrna: The Harvard Fulgenzi Album – Author: Richard Wittmann
A visual life narrativeof 1830s Ottoman Izmir/Smyrna: The Harvard Fulgenzi Album Author: Richard Wittmann 29 MAY 2020 A beautiful album, conceived in Smyrna, modern-day Izmir, blends the Ottoman world of the mid-19th century with that of the new national state of Greece. This combination constitutes the subject of the 25 illustrations which portray the human form and…