Transottoman Matters

Objects Moving through Time, Space, and Meaning

Contributions by Stephanie Armer Contributions by Arkadiusz Blaszczyk Contributions by Robert Born Contributions by Albrecht Fuess Contributions by Eva Hanke Contributions by Anja Kregeloh Contributions by Alexander Osipian Contributions by Anthony T. Quickel Contributions by Florian Riedler Contributions by Stefan Rohdewald Contributions by Mehmet Tepeyurt Edited by Arkadiusz Blaszczyk Edited by Robert Born Edited by Florian Riedler

Book cover: Transottoman Matters

Extent: 327 pages

Publisher: V&R unipress

Subjects: Cultural Studies

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(December 2021)

ISBN: 9783847111689

6.3 x 9.25 inches

Price: $74.00

In stock

By focusing on the way objects determined processes of mobility and how their social meaning and materiality was transformed by this, the contributions gain deeper insight into the historical relations between the Ottoman Empire, Eastern Europe, and Persia.


This volume analyzes historical processes of mobility by focusing on material objects. Mobility – as a shorthand for various related processes such as migration, transfer, entanglement, and translation – involves human actors, immaterial elements such as ideas and knowledge, but also objects in various forms and functions. For example, as material infrastructures they are the basis for transport and travel; as goods they are the object and purpose of trade or gift exchange. By focusing on the way objects determined certain processes of mobility and how their social meaning and materiality was transformed in these processes, the contributors hope to gain deeper insight into the historical relations between the Ottoman Empire, Eastern Europe, and Persia.

  • Contributions by Stephanie Armer
  • Contributions by Arkadiusz Blaszczyk
  • Contributions by Robert Born
  • Contributions by Albrecht Fuess
  • Contributions by Eva Hanke
  • Contributions by Anja Kregeloh
  • Contributions by Alexander Osipian
  • Contributions by Anthony T. Quickel
  • Contributions by Florian Riedler
  • Contributions by Stefan Rohdewald
  • Contributions by Mehmet Tepeyurt
  • Edited by Arkadiusz Blaszczyk
  • Edited by Robert Born
  • Edited by Florian Riedler