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Table of Contents of Islands of the Ottoman Empire

Antonis Hadjikyriacou

Envisioning Insularity in the Ottoman World

PART I: CONCEPTUALIZING INSULARITY 

Spyros Asdrachas

Observations on Insularity in the Greek World

Eleftheria Zei

The Historiography of Aegean Insularity

PART II: VIOLENCE AND LAW IN TERRAQUEOUS SPACE 

Michael Talbot

Separating the Waters from the Sea: The Place of Islands in Ottoman Maritime Territoriality during the Eighteenth Century

Murat Cem Menguc

Maritime Warfare in the Aegean and Ionian Islandscapes: Safai’s History of the 1499 Lepanto Expedition

PART III: REGULATING ISLANDS 

Fatma Simsek

Blockading an Island: Collective Punishment, Islanders, and the State in the “Largest” Island at the End of the Nineteenth Century

Kahraman Sakul

The Ottoman Peloponnese before the Greek Revolution: “A Republic of Ayan, Hakim and Kocabasi ” in “the Sea of Humans and Valley of Castles”