Selim Deringil

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Selim Deringil (born Ottawa, 1951) is a professor of history at Boğaziçi University.

He earned his doctorate from the University of East Anglia in 1979, and joined Boğaziçi University the same year. He has lectured in the United States, England, France and Israel. He has written several essays on the fall of the Ottoman Empire and the history of the Republic of Turkey. His book "The Well-Protected Domains: İdeology and the Legitimation of Power in the Ottoman Empire 1876-1909" was awarded the "Turkish Studies Association Fuad Köprülü" prize in 2001.

[edit] Partial bibliography

  • The Ottomans, the Turks, and world power politics : collected essays, ISBN 9754281793
  • Turkish foreign policy during the Second World War : an "active" neutrality, ISBN 0521344662
  • The well-protected domains : ideology and the legitimation of power in the Ottoman Empire, 1876-1909, ISBN 1860643078

[edit] Further reading

  • De Bellaigue, Christopher (2001). "Turkey's Hidden Past". The New York Review of Books 48 (4).  (Review of "The Well-Protected Domains: Ideology and the Legitimation of Power in the Ottoman Empire, 1876–1909")

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