Donald Quataert

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Donald Quataert (born September 10, 1941 , † February 10, 2011 ) was an Ottoman and historian specializing in the Middle East at Binghamton University . He taught Middle Eastern and Ottoman history. One focus of his work was the social and economic history of the early modern period . He did pioneering work in evaluating the archive sources of the former Ottoman Empire and published numerous articles on the country's economic history. Quataert was married to Jean H. Quataert, who also taught at Binghamton University.

Training and teaching

Quataert graduated from Boston University with a Bachelor of Arts in History (BA in History) in 1966 . In 1968 he received a Masters degree (MA in Middle Eastern Studies) from Harvard University , and in 1973 a PhD in History from UCLA . From 1974 to 1986 he taught at the University of Houston and received a professorship at Binghamton University in 1987.

In 2006 Quataert resigned as head of the Institute of Turkish Studies at his university after publicly stating that researchers also had to deal with the Armenian genocide . According to Quataert, this statement was sharply criticized by the then ambassador of the Republic of Turkey to the USA, Nabi Sensoy, and the further financial support of the institute by the Turkish government was questioned. The ambassador denied these statements.

Selection of works

  • Miners and the State in the Ottoman Empire: the Zonguldak Coalfield, 1822-1920. Berghahn Press, 2006.
  • Editor, with Sabri Sayari: Turkish Studies in the United States. Bloomington, IN, 2003.
  • Donald Quataert: The Ottoman Empire, 1700-1922 . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK 2000, ISBN 978-0-521-83910-5 . Full text , accessed August 13, 2016.
  • Publisher: Consumption Studies & The History Of The Ottoman Empire, 1550-1922. Albany, 2000.
  • Workers and the Working Class in the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic, 1839-1950. London, 1995.
  • Halil İnalcık , Donald Quataert (eds.): An Economic and Social History of the Ottoman Empire, 1300-1914 . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK 1994, ISBN 978-0-521-34315-2 .
  • Editor, with Halil Inalcik and Erik Zurcher, Ottoman Empire: Society and Economy 1300–1914. Cambridge, 1994.
  • Editor, with Halil İnalcık : The Age of Reforms, 1812–1914. In: The Ottoman Empire: Society and Economy 1300-1914. Cambridge, 1994, pp. 749-943.
  • Workers, Peasants and Economic Change in the Ottoman Empire, 1730-1914. Istanbul, 1993.
  • Donald Quataert: Ottoman manufacturing in the age of the industrial revolution . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK 1993, ISBN 978-0-521-89301-5 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
  • Manufacturing and Technology Transfer in the Ottoman Empire, 1800-1914. Istanbul, 1992.
  • Editor, with Richard Antoun: Syria: Its Society, Culture and Polity. Albany, 1991. ISBN 978-0-7914-0714-1
  • Social Disintegration and Popular Resistance in the Ottoman Empire, 1881–1908. Reactions to European Economic Penetration. New York, 1983.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ personal page Quataerts (English) at Binghamton University ( Memento of 13 August 2016 Internet Archive ), accessed on 13 August 2016th
  2. ^ American Historical Association obituary , accessed August 13, 2016.
  3. ^ Susan Kinzie: Board Members Resign to Protest Chair's Ousting . The Washington Post . July 5, 2008 (English), accessed August 13, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Quataert, Donald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American historian specializing in the Ottoman Empire
DATE OF BIRTH September 10, 1941
DATE OF DEATH February 10, 2011