Contents -- Copyrights and Permissions -- Introduction -- I. Ottoman Transformation & Demography-Migration -- The Transformation of the Ottoman State, 1789-1908 -- The Ottoman Parliament of 1877 and its Social Significance -- The Ottoman Emigration to America, 1860-1914 -- The Ottoman Adoption of Statistics from the West in the 19th Century -- Jewish Population Movements in the Ottoman Empire, 1862-1914 -- Kossuth in Turkey: The Impact of Hungarian Refugees in the Ottoman Empire, 1849-1851 -- The Ottoman Demography in the Nineteenth Century: Sources, Concepts, Methods -- Ottoman Urbanism: The Crimean Emigration to Dobruca and the Founding of Mecidiye, 1856-1878 -- The Ottoman Family: Documents Pertaining to its Size -- The Social and Economic Transformation of Istanbul in the Nineteenth Century -- Some Historical and Methodological Considerations Concerning Social Stratification in the Middle East -- Muslim Migration -- II. The Social Restructuring, Nationalities-Nationalism -- The Land Regime, Social Structure, and Modernization in the Ottoman Empire -- The Social and Political Foundations of Nationalism in South East Europe after 1878: A Reinterpretation -- Ottoman Relations with the Balkan Nations after 1683 -- The Balkan National States and Nationalism: Image and Reality -- The Ottoman Rule in Europe From the Perspective of 1994 -- The Civil Rights of the Muslims of the Balkans -- Nation and Nationalism in the Late Ottoman Empire -- The Memoirs of N. Batzaria: The Young Turks and Nationalism -- Ottoman Views and Policies Towards the Orthodox Christian Church -- Millets and Nationality: The Roots of the Incongruity of Nation and State in the Post-Ottoman Era -- The Status of the Muslim under European Rule: The Eviction and Settlement of the Çerkes -- Romanian Independence and the Ottoman State -- III. Ethnicity & Identity.

The Hijra from Russia and the Balkans: The Process of Self-Definition in the Late Ottoman State -- The Ethnicity Problem in a Multi-Ethnic Anational Islamic State: Continuity and Recasting of Ethnic Identity in the Ottoman State -- The Ottoman Ethnic and Confessional Legacy in the Middle East -- Ottoman Migration, Ethnopolitics and the Formation of Nation States in South East Europe and Israel -- Ottoman Immigration Policies and Settlement in Palestine -- Yakub Bey's Relations with the Ottoman Sultans: A Reinterpretation -- Social Environment and Literature: The Reflection of the Young Turk Era (1908-1918) in the Literary Work of Omer Seyfeddin (1884-1920) -- Glossary -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- Y -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.