I. Ottoman transformation and demography -- migration -- The transformation of the Ottoman state, 1789-1908 -- The Ottoman parliament of 1877 and its social significance -- The Ottoman emigration to America, 1860-1914 -- The Ottoman adoption of statistics from the West in the 19th century -- Jewish population movements in the Ottoman Empire, 1862-1914 -- Kosuth in Turkey: The impact of Hungarian refugees in the Ottoman Empire, 1849-1851 -- The Ottoman demography in the nineteenth century: Sources, concepts, methods -- Ottoman urbanism: The Crimean emigration to Dobruca and the founding of Mecidiye, 1856-1878 -- The Ottoman family: Documents pertaining to its size -- The social and economic transformation of Istanbul in the nineteenth century -- Some historical and methodological considerations concerning social stratification in the Middle East -- Muslim migration. II. The social restructuring, nationalities -- nationalism -- The land regime, social structure, and modernization in the Ottoman Empire -- The social and political foundations of nationalism in South East Europe after 1878: A reinterpretation -- Ottoman relations with the Balkan nations after 1683 -- The Balkan national states and nationalism: image and reality -- The Ottoman rule in Europe from the perspective of 1994 -- The civil rights of the Muslims of the Balkans -- Nation and nationalism in the late Ottoman Empire -- The memoirs of N. Batzaria: The young Turks and nationalism -- Ottoman views and policies towards the Orthodox Christian Church -- Millets and nationality: The roots of the incongruity of nation and state in the Post-Ottoman era -- The status of the Muslim under European rule: the eviction and settlement of the Cerkes -- Romanian independence and the Ottoman state. III. Ethnicity & identity -- The Hijra from Russia and the Balkans: the process of self-definition in the late Ottoman state -- The ethnicity problem in a multi-ethnic a national Islamic state: Continuity and recasting of ethnic identity in the Ottoman state -- The Ottoman ethnic and confessional legacy in the Middle East -- Ottoman migration, ethnopolitics and the formation of nation states in South East Europe and Israel -- Ottoman immigration policies and settlement in Palestine -- Yakub Bey's relations with the Ottoman sultans: a reinterpretation -- Social environment and literature: The reflection of the Young Turk Era (1908-1918) in the literary work of Omer Seyfeddin.