This work is a collection of essays by Aryeh Smuelevitz on Turkey between the years 1976 and 1982, a period of political turmoil and violence which culminated in a military coup.

Aryeh Shmuelevitz study of Ottoman Jewish history takes the reader across the Ottoman Empire in time and geography while questioning the historical value of each source he consults.

This collection of essays contains the work of one of the premier Ottoman economic and social historians, Donald Quataert, covering topics relating to labour and manufacturing in the nineteenth century.

Perilous Modernity collects essays on the idea of modern science and medicine in the Ottoman Empire during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Donald Quataert’s book on the transfer of new technologies and the importation of skilled workers fits into the larger question of how modernity was received in the Ottoman Empire.

Selim Deringil, a leading historian of the late Ottoman Empire, collects a sample of his essays on the central state and its relations with the periphery and the outside world in this volume.