MythsFacts and Method

Myths, Facts and Method Book Description Myths, Facts and Method: What I Remember in Ottoman History presents the balance sheet of an Ottoman historian's productive curiosity and meticulous research on different periods and different subjects. In his articles collected in this book, Edhem Eldem covers everything from generally accepted interpretations of a painting to the choices an Ottoman bureaucrat made while telling his own life story; It questions a number of myths about Ottoman history, ranging from the fate of the Janissaries' tombs to a case of plagiarism at the beginning of the 19th century. In addition to offering general and specific method suggestions for writing Ottoman history, this book by Edhem Eldem also shows that the historian's horizons include the present. Myths, Facts and Method also offers readers a comprehensive interview about Edhem Eldem's career as a historian, which extends to the Collège de France. This book, prepared for publication by Ömer Turan and Y. Doğan Çetinkaya, is also the first book of the History Foundation Yurt Publications' "Historians' Kitchen: Social History Books" series. With this new series, we will present to our readers books that bring together articles published mainly from the Social History magazine. . We believe that our new series will be followed by our young readers as well as the experts. (From the Promotional Bulletin)