List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Contributors; Preface; Introduction: A Life in Ottoman History Suraiya Faroqhi; Part I. Sources and Structures: 1. Setting Off for the Archives Marc Aymes and Christopher Markiewicz; 2. Literary and Biographical Sources Hatice Aynur; 3. Chronicles and the Court: History Writing Ethan Menchinger; 4. Letter Collections and the Central Bureaucracy Christine Woodhead; 5. Whose Archives?: Legal Courts and the Question of the Written Document Yavuz Aykan; 6. Visual Sources for the Study of Ottoman History Emine Fetvac¿; 7. Quantitative Data and the Economy P¿nar Ceylan and Metin M. Co¿gel; 8. An Anthropologist among Ottomanists Nada Moumtaz; Part II. Perspectives and Methods: 9. Rural History Stefan Winter; 10. Labor History Can Nacar and Hatice Y¿ld¿z; 11. Environmental History Chris Gratien; 12. Social Networks Yonca Köksal; 13. Digital History, GIS, and Spatial Humanities: Mapping the Historical Population Geography of Two Regions in Bulgaria, 1840-1934 M. Erdem Kabaday¿, Grigor Boykov and Piet Gerrits; 14. Ottoman Diplomacy Güne¿ I¿¿ksel; 15. Intellectual History Oscar Aguirre-Mandujano and Kerem Tinaz; 16. Approaching Ottoman Cultural History: Affect, Performance, and Aurality Asl¿han Gürbüzel and Jacob Olley; 17. Ottoman Science: Institutions, Genres, Materials A. Tunç ¿en and Daniel A. Stolz; Part III. Frames and Actors: 18. Imperial Edges and Those Who Live There: A Reconsideration of the Frontier in Ottoman History Isa Blumi and Güne¿ I¿¿ksel; 19. Capital and Province Marc Aymes; 20. On the Shores of Empire Antonis Hadjikyriacou and Alexis Wick; 21. Religion, Millet, and Nation Antonis Hadjikyriacou; 22. Gender and Sexuality N. ¿pek Hüner and Bäak Tu¿; 23. Itinerant Ottomans: Refugees and Migrants as the Engine of an Empire's History Isa Blumi; 24. Humans, Animals, Plants Yonca Köksal and Can Nacar; 25. After the Ottomans? Alexis Rappas and Alexis Wick; References; Index.