New Area Studies

Transottoman Perspectives

Stephan Conermann, Zaur Gasimov, Veruschka Wagner

• Publisher: V&R Unipress
• Year: 2026
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9783847018292
• Topic: Histoire
• Subtopic: Référence historique

The New Area Studies enable a rethinking of world history and a more critical approach to traditional historical writing. An additional factor contributing to the critical reflection on traditional area studies was the contemporary political context. The contributors contend that there is a need for greater supra-regional integration and transboundary as well as cross-border perspectives within historical research. This process should be accompanied by the diversification of research within the traditional area studies disciplines and the adoption of an approach that considers regions from a cross-cultural perspective. The eight case studies presented in this volume exemplify the transottoman perspective in examining the intertwined history of Eastern, South-Eastern Europe and the Near and Middle East.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright
• Table of Contents
• Body
• Introduction: From Area Studies to New Area Studies
• Meta Area Studies: Transottoman Perspectives on Spatial Condensations by Overlapping and Rivaling Area Studies
• Mental Preconditions for Network Analyses (Example of Pʾarsadan Gorgijaniże and his “Life of Georgia”)
• Ottoman Chronotopes: Imaginations of Ottoman Foreignness as a Semiotic-Chronotopic Model (Pavel Levashov and Mikhail Kutuzov)
• An Undead Area. The Venetian Republic, Its Overseas Possessions (Stato da Mar), and a Constructivist Approach to Area Studies
• “An Orthodox Commonwealth”? Dealing with Transottoman Orthodox Christian Networks through the Prism of New Area Studies
• Women’s new spaces: Kato Mikeladze at the Crossroads of Global Ideas and Local Borders
• Transottoman Slavery: Configuring Space beyond Ottoman Borders
• Slaving, Manumission and Redemption Across the Transottoman Steppe. Crossroads Studies and Interactions of the Russian and Ottoman Empires