Academic Catalog

HIST320 SOURCES OF OTTOMAN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL HISTORY I

Course Code: 2400320
METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): 3(3-0)
ECTS Credit: 6.0
Department: History
Language of Instruction: English
Level of Study: Undergraduate
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Offered Semester: Fall and Spring Semesters.

Course Content

Diverse sources of Ottoman economic, financial, commercial and accounting history, reading and analyzing transliterated budgets and account books kept by state departments and institutions, survey registers and law codes, use of these archival sources in secondary literature, historical research fields and topics studied through the material, contribution and drawbacks of archival sources.